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2022
Book chapter
Gandhāra in the news: rediscovering Gandhāra in The Times and other media
Although I have had the pleasure to work alongside colleagues at the British Museum whose research has focused on Gandhāra, my own research has been more peripheral: for example, on East Asia and collection history. For the ‘Rediscovery and Reception of Gandhāran Art’ workshop, I suggested looking at Gandhāra through...Wang, Helen
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2022
Book chapter
Introduction (East and South East Asia)
Introduction to the East and South East Asian section of the International Numismatic Council Survey of Numismatic Research 2014-2020, vols 1&2.Wang, Helen
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2022
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2022
Book chapter
Money on the Silk Road – twenty years on
One of 28 papers in a Festschrift in honour of Georgina Herrmann, this paper outlines projects and publications relating to, and arising from, "Money on the Silk. The Evidence from Eastern Central Asia to c. AD 800, including a catalogue of the coins collected by Sir Aurel SteinWang, Helen
Silk Roads, Money, and Aurel Stein
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The fabric of banknotes – textiles in and on paper money
At various times in history and across the world, textiles have been used in payments and exchange, for example, in Tang Dynasty China when coins and textiles were the main forms of money, and in social and cultural conventions, such as dowries. Banknotes originate in the ‘flying money’ (feiqian) of...Wang, Helen