Now currency has stable rates,
gold and greenbacks are disgraced,
Renminbi are widely trusted,
speculators have been busted.
From a 1950 Chinese propaganda cartoon about the renminbi, or “People’s Currency.” Read Nick Frisch on The Renminbi’s Rollercoaster, from its first printings on guerrilla bases in the 1930s to its recent adoption into the IMF’s elite global currency club.
— Roland Barthes, Travels in China, newly translated, reviewed at Dissent