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Tael

A unit of weight in Taiwan approximately equivalent to 37.5 grams. It is used primarily in the sale of bulk foodstuffs. An equivalent term is niu.
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The British envoy informed the Foreign Minister that the Chinese were asking (just for the first loan) 100 million taels, i.e., 16 million [pounds sterling].
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In 1806, there was a surplus of 710 strings of copper coins (equivalent to 710 taels of silver) left after the annual repair.
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In the historic Treaty of Shanyuan (Chanyuan), the Song government agreed to pay the Liao an annual payment of 200,000 bolts of silk and 100,000 taels of silver.
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According to the treaty, China ceded Taiwan and its affiliated islands to Japan, and paid Japan as a war indemnity the sum of 200 million Kuping taels.
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The protagonist in Li's play is more artistically sophisticated than his fictional counterpart, who shows his mercantile nature when he is forced to buy the old woman: "I put up ten taels for a father the other day and obtained all kinds of blessings.
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