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This thesis presents an alternative picture of the literati and Buddhist networks in early Qing, one that depicts how the cultural subjectivity of intellectuals was reformed instead of constrained by the state after the dynastic change from Ming to Qing. The narration is substan…

This dissertation studies a special feature about the international financial market. Classical theories often assume that countries are symmetric, but realistically the international financial market is heavily US dollar dominated, which stimulates my interest to study whether …

This thesis investigates the chemical composition of both silver and bronze coinage from the Ptolemaic Dynasty through the use of microwave plasma atomic emissions spectrometry (MP-AES). The aim of this examination is to broaden the understanding of Ptolemaic currency by using t…