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Correspondance CORRESPONDANCE Dear Professor Duyvendak, Thank you very much for sending me an offprint of your article "A Chinese 'Divine Commedia.' " The similarity in eastern and western concepts of Hell is a fascinating subject, and your treatment of it is most delightful. Not qualified to discuss this problem of cultural borrowing in general, I wish to add a note on two specific points, namely, the "yellow-faced money" and the coconut ladle, which you have suggested to be foreign, non-Chinese features (pp. 284-285). When you read an abstract of this paper at the 16ist Meeting of the American Oriental Society in Boston last April, I expressed doubts about the interpretation of the tcrm huang-pien-ch'ien-erh "yellow-faced money," as gold coins. I observed that the term probably referred to copper coins, or rather brass coins, J'i I, in contrast with ch'ing-ch'ien bronze coins. Another point I made was that gold coins existed in China in Ming and earlier times, and consequently they need not constitute a foreign cultural trait. I seem to have seen in a Ming or Ch'ing literary work the ex- pression lao-huang-pl*en-erh referring to good old copper coins, but unfortunately I am unable to locate the exact reference http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

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T'oung Pao , Volume 42 (1): 106 – Jan 1, 1953

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1953 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0082-5433
eISSN
1568-5322
DOI
10.1163/156853253X00057
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Abstract

CORRESPONDANCE Dear Professor Duyvendak, Thank you very much for sending me an offprint of your article "A Chinese 'Divine Commedia.' " The similarity in eastern and western concepts of Hell is a fascinating subject, and your treatment of it is most delightful. Not qualified to discuss this problem of cultural borrowing in general, I wish to add a note on two specific points, namely, the "yellow-faced money" and the coconut ladle, which you have suggested to be foreign, non-Chinese features (pp. 284-285). When you read an abstract of this paper at the 16ist Meeting of the American Oriental Society in Boston last April, I expressed doubts about the interpretation of the tcrm huang-pien-ch'ien-erh "yellow-faced money," as gold coins. I observed that the term probably referred to copper coins, or rather brass coins, J'i I, in contrast with ch'ing-ch'ien bronze coins. Another point I made was that gold coins existed in China in Ming and earlier times, and consequently they need not constitute a foreign cultural trait. I seem to have seen in a Ming or Ch'ing literary work the ex- pression lao-huang-pl*en-erh referring to good old copper coins, but unfortunately I am unable to locate the exact reference

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Published: Jan 1, 1953

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