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| Class of '55 Conference Room, 2nd Floor Van Pelt Library
The discussion of the place of Islam in the Qing Empire has largely been carried on without confronting the question of what “Islam” meant to the Qing – a non-European, non-confessional empire, …
“館史資料からみた東京国立博物館と外国博物館との文化財交換 (The History of the Exchanges of the Cultural Objects between the Tokyo National Museum and the Museums in Foreign Counties)”
There were a variety of currencies in premodern society, but coins were widely used due to their intrinsic values in the metal itself. However, a large-scale national plan was needed since the material supply was…
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| Class of '55 Conference Room, 2nd floor Van Pelt Library
During its brief existence, the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-77 AD) made great aesthetic achievements in early Chinese art. The ruling Gao family was genetically Han Chinese but culturally identified itself with the…
