I am a professor in the history department at Loyola University New Orleans,
where I teach Asian history and carry out research on Uyghur historical
traditions. Over the last decade I have spent several years in Xinjiang, and met
many kind friends among the numismatic communities in Urumqi and Kashgar. I
started this site to help compensate for the lack of English-language material on
the Qing coins of Xinjiang, and to try to present a typology that highlights the
more historically significant variations in red cash. I am now slowly expanding
the site's coverage of Islamic coinage.
-Rian
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