Book Description
Excerpt from Banking and Prices in China Bank forms were invented by the Chinese. Inpbanking Operations the Chinese, by the use of printed and written notes representing money, have been the teachers of the Europeans. Venetian merchants learned the use Ofbank forms from the Chinese and taught the system to the French, English, and German merchants. The same thing has happened in the Customs' service. Many of the forms now in use in the Chinese Customs, under foreign control, were employed in the native Custom Houses for generations past. Banking consists in receiving money on deposit, in lending money, and in the dexterous use of paper forms representing money, whether principal or interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
