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Fellowship Project
Ms. LI Jianing will undertake a six-month fellowship (early 2027) at the Royal Ontario Museum (“ROM”) (Toronto, Canada), focusing on its Chinese coin collection and related world numismatic holdings. Her project will encompass object cataloguing, data verification, typological organization, and comparative research on Chinese coins in the ROM collection, with particular attention to chronology, inscriptions, materials, forms, provenance, and existing catalogue records. It will also explore how Chinese coins are classified, documented, and interpreted in an overseas museum context.
In addition, the project will draw upon the ROM’s Greek, Roman, South Asian, and Southeast Asian coin collections. Through the perspectives of comparative numismatics and world history, it will explore the significance of Chinese coinage within global material culture and cross-civilizational exchange. This Fellowship will also lay the groundwork for future collaboration between the National Museum of China and the Royal Ontario Museum in collection research, academic study, catalogue publication, and exhibition exchange.
Biography
Ms. LI Jianing is an Assistant Researcher at the National Museum of China and holds a Master’s degree in History from Renmin University of China. Her work focuses on the acquisition, authentication, and research of foreign cultural relics, with a particular focus on ancient coins and export arts. Her current research interests include ancient Silk Road coinage and cross-cultural exchange as reflected through numismatic evidence. She has published four academic articles and contributed to publications such as Acquisition Report Series of the National Museum of China: Ancient Foreign Coins and Ancient Chinese Coins.
Recent Development and Achievement
Since 2019, Ms. LI Jianing has been primarily responsible for acquisition projects related to ancient foreign coins. She has completed five acquisition reports on ancient coins and contributed to the writing and editing of Acquisition Report Series of the National Museum of China: Ancient Foreign Coins. She has continued to conduct research on cultural exchange between China and the wider world from the perspective of numismatics. She has also participated in the National Social Science Fund projects “Compilation and Research of Ancient Sogdian Coins from the Perspective of Civilizational Exchange” and “Research on Cultural Exchange between China and Central Asia during the Han and Tang Dynasties from the Perspective of Numismatics”. She was awarded the Katherina and William Barrett Fund of the Royal Numismatic Society, which supported her visit to major numismatic collections in the United Kingdom for academic exchange.
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