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Magpie days - by Jasmine Li - letters to my friends 💌

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notes on China (collecting, family, history)

A side interest I’ve taken up this past month, while at home, has been collecting various ~chinese~ objects! First, here are some paper notes from the third series of the renminbi, in circulation starting 1962: I quite enjoy this sort of old socialist aesthetic - the pastoral labor scenes + figures looking into the distance feel quite earnest and romantic. The top left ten-yuan note is called “Great Unity” (大团结) and picture's the National People’s Congress. I found it at a hole-in-the-wall in Shanghai during WAIC. I find the pink color of the right note (a 1960 1-rmb note) particularly…

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