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8 février 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.4998
- isbn: 9782735111770
- eisbn: 9782735120895
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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ville histoire Chine sociologie urbaine XXème siècle Shanghai politique villes Shanghai Parti communiste chinois Chine (République populaire de) citoyenneté Guangzhou Beijing History HIS008000 HIS037070 HBJF HBLWSujets proches
Specie Monetary question Money, Primitive Currency Standard of valueCiter ce document
Bryna Goodman, « 3. ‘The Crime of Economics’ », Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.4998
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In his seminal study of the divine and the demonic in Chinese religious culture, Richard Von Glahn considers the symbolic import of money in the expanding economy of the late Ming, when money surged into daily life in the heavily commercialized Jiangnan region. The popular cult of the demonic god of wealth, Wutong 五通, provides Von Glahn with a window onto the popular imagination of money. Wutong, who governed the dispensation of wealth, embodied the vices of lust and greed, linking the acquis...