If the pearl symbolises the universal matrix bringing fecundity to the woman who wears it - jade, in China, is the symbol of the solar principle, eternal, immutable, and the person who wears it acquires these magic virtues which, after death, will even save the body from decay. . .l).

l) About the magic of jade, cf. Our forthcoming book, La Mandragore. Jade in China, B. Laufer, Jade, A study in Chinese Archaeology and Religion. (Chicago, 1912); Giseler, Les symboles de jade dans le Taoisme (R.H.R. 1932); Ed. Erkes, Idols in pre-Buddhist China (Artibus Asiae, 1928); B. Karlgren, Some fecundity symbols in Ancient China ("Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities",  Stockholm, 1930, p. 1-54). ,

Eliade, from which the quote comes, wrote this piece in about 1935  - so I think La Mandragore forthcame more than 60 years ago - any good Library should have a copy.