I was intrigued by Wiggia's inclusion yesterday of the photograph below (Cartier-Bresson, Shanghai, 1948) and had to find out what was going on. It turns out this was a scramble to buy gold before the Kuomintang's currency vapourised.
https://parisdiarybylaure.com/henri-cartier-bresson-travels-to-china-in-1948/
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