Evidence coverage: 1857–1933. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
Local Shanghai commercial/contractual silver account unit, not all Chinese taels and not a sycee ingot type.
No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Shanghai business used its local tael as a monetary unit; existing obligations were expressed in taels and required a yuan conversion rule.
Sources and qualifications →Local contracts and payments denominated in Shanghai taels required account conversion into yuan; independent account denomination rather than weight standard alone.
Sources and qualifications →Local contracts and payments denominated in Shanghai taels required account conversion into yuan; independent account denomination rather than weight standard alone.
Sources and qualifications →Chinese and Western merchants adopted Shanghai’s abstract tael money of account in 1857. This reported adoption is not a universal origin date for all Shanghai silver references.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Shanghai business used its local tael as a monetary unit; existing obligations were expressed in taels and required a yuan conversion rule.
C1384Chinese and Western merchants adopted Shanghai’s abstract tael money of account in 1857. This reported adoption is not a universal origin date for all Shanghai silver references.
C2007Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Shanghai business used its local tael as a monetary unit; existing obligations were expressed in taels and required a yuan conversion rule.
printed38–39, including footnotes33and37
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Shanghai tael-based payments and contracts were replaced by Republic of China yuan accounting. Shanghai local absorption only; yuan already existed; do not infer all local taels abolished simultaneously.
Bratterprinted39; BOCparagraphApril5
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Bratterprinted39; BOCparagraphApril5
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Limits: Original decree not inspected; article supports payment/contract transition, not universal enforcement across every Chinese locality.
Shanghai banks, exchanges and businesses discontinued tael valuation in favour of yuan following the central order.
printed39; BOCApril5announcement
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
printed39; BOCApril5announcement
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Limits: Original decree not inspected; article supports payment/contract transition, not universal enforcement across every Chinese locality.
Local contracts and payments denominated in Shanghai taels required account conversion into yuan; independent account denomination rather than weight standard alone.
China customs-gold discussion, printed p.40 footnote 38; Ceylon and Mauritius country sections (Mauritius printed p.79)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Chinese and Western merchants adopted Shanghai’s abstract tael money of account in 1857. This reported adoption is not a universal origin date for all Shanghai silver references.
Abstract and sections 5–6; dollar accounts and Shanghai tael
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.