31. Zhu Xihua, coin designer and engraver

Zhu Xihua 朱熙华, coin designer and engraver at the Shanghai Mint Co Ltd 上海造币有限公司 has just been honoured with a Shanghai Skilled Worker Award.

30. Chinese Coins from the Scholar’s Study

“Chinese Coins from the Scholar’s Study” at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, opened on 25 April. It closes on Sunday 24 September. It’s a small, but thoughtful display and well worth a visit if you can make it.

29. Paintings of money by Dong Yuan and Lam Tung-pang

Over the summer there was an exhibition of paintings “Transitions: Dong Yuan, Lam Tung-pang and Lao Tongli” （转变：董媛，林东鹏, 劳同丽）at Chambers Fine Art (前波画廊) in New York (22 June – 2 Sept 2017).

28. Who’s Who in East Asian Numismatics?

The online newsletter Coins Weekly runs a regular feature “Who’s Who in Numismatics”, introducing people who are active in the field. So far, in terms of people working on East Asian numismatics, they have featured Joe Cribb and last week the spotlight was on François Thierry de Crussol. I hope they’ll also go further afield and feature some of the numismatists based in East Asia too. (BTW, subscription to Coins Weekly is free)

27. Chinese coins on Tlingit armour

In August, a colleague sent me this photograph from the Canadian War Museum, in Ottawa, with the question “Is it a well-known thing?”

26. Journal of East Asian Numismatics (JEAN) – issue 7, no. 25 (Aug 2017)

JEAN began as a paper journal in 1994, and since 2016 has transformed into a bilingual (Chinese and English) e-journal. The Chinese editor is Michael Chou. The English editor is Bruce W. Smith. There’s a good introduction to the journal and the editors here.

25. China Numismatics 2017.1 (144) – English summary

China Numismatics 《中国钱币》 is published bimonthly by the China Numismatic Museum 中国钱币博物馆 and China Numismatic Society 中国钱币学会 in Beijing. The journal is published in Chinese.

24. The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection

The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection, by Zhang Yingyu, translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk (Columbia University Press, 2017), ISBN 9780231178631.