No one is questioning that China understands paper money.
The question is do they store this paper money is wallets? Or is it carried in a pocket? Or do they have full sized binders the money is put in? Or fanny packs? Do they even carry cash anymore?
They use wallets, paper money just like the rest of us. Though there's a recent phenom of 'cashless', cash is still normative, moreover, this is a very recent thing.
A 'wallet' in China is the the same thing as a 'wallet' in the USA or Sweden.
I know that. Or at least assumed that. I just wanted to clarify what my GP was asking as I felt people were taking it too literal.
Like how women in the US carry purses. I've never been to another country. Do all cultures use purses? If they do is it both genders or only one? I don't know.
I believe people in China understand very well what paper money is and means, in roughly/ballpark the same terms as Americans.
I could be wrong.