A recent enquiry has drawn my attention to the world of Chinese transportation tokens. There are a few Chinese transportation tokens in theBritish Museum - they are a random assortment of plastic and metal pieces- and there are some paper transportation tickets as well - also a randomassortment. All of these are on the BM database (unfortunately, Collection Online hasn't been updated since last summer, although data entry, editsand imaging continues behind the scenes).

Here's one from Tianjin:

Many thanks to Mr Sa'ar for drawing my attention to the following:

I just discovered another 435 Chinese transportation tickets, issued by 147 different companies on Colnect.

To browse Chinese websites, copy and paste 代用币 (daiyongbi), the Chinese term for "token", into a search engine (if the text is overwhelming, trysearching for images).

Links:
Facebook Transportation Tokens Collectors group(https://www.facebook.com/groups/transportationtokens/about/)
"Shanghai Ferry Tokens" - by Conrad Frost(http://china-mint.info/forum/index.php?topic=9553.0)
The Chinese coin forum (http://china-mint.info/forum/)

To read the complete article, see:
49. CHINESE TRANSPORTATION TOKENS ANDTICKETS (https://chinesemoneymatters.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/49-chinese-transportation-tokens-and-tickets/)