理查德·怀特,英国人,1931年生,出身海军世家,1944年起作为皇家海军年轻的见习官,在超过5艘的远东战舰服役。1960年,他在香港收集了第一枚中国银币,从此开始了40多年的集币和研究生涯;1970年,他从海军退役成为女王的外交信使,有更多的机会往来于香港和北京,在此期间,他开始了对中国近代铸币的研究和写作。本书并不是一本专著,而是作者自1974—2003年在英国各钱币学期刊发表的37篇论 Richard White, Englishman, born in 1931, born in a naval family, served as a young naval officer in 1944 and served in more than five warships on the Far East. In 1960, he collected the first Chinese silver coin in Hong Kong, where he started over 40 years of coin collection and research career. In 1970, he retired from the navy to become the queen’s diplomatic messenger and had more opportunities to travel between Hong Kong and Beijing. During this period, he began his research and writing on modern Chinese coinage. This book is not a monograph, but rather the author’s 37 articles published in British numismatic journals from 1974-2003