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University of Leeds: Leeds, GB

2024-04 to present | Visiting Research Fellow (The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing)
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Helen Wang

Oriental Numismatic Society: London, GB

2021 to present | Member of the Editorial Board (previously also Secretary, UK & Eire)
Employment
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Helen Wang

British Museum: London, London, GB

1991 to 2023 | Curator, East Asian Money (Dept of Coins and Medals)
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Helen Wang

Education and qualifications (2)

University College London: London, London, GB

2002 | PhD Archaeology
Qualification
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Helen Wang

SOAS University of London: London, London, GB

1988 | BA Chinese
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Helen Wang

Professional activities (9)

The Society of Authors: London, Greater London, GB

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Helen Wang

The Royal Numismatic Society: London, GB

Fellow (previously Hon Secretary, Vice President)
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Helen Wang

Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators: London, GB

Member
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Helen Wang

Oriental Numismatic Society: London, GB

2021 to present | Member of the Editorial Board (previously also Secretary, UK & Eire)
Membership
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Helen Wang

Royal Numismatic Society: London, GB

2024 | Medal 2024
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Helen Wang

Royal Numismatic Society: London, GB

2023 | Lhotka Memorial Prize (For "Chinese Numismatics. The world of Chinese money" co-authored with Francois Thierry and Lyce Jankowski, with an introduction by Joe Cribb)
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Helen Wang

Société française de numismatique: Paris, FR

2019-12 | Jeton de vermeil 2019
Distinction
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Helen Wang

CICLA : Shanghai, CN

2017-12 | Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award - Special Award 2017
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Helen Wang

Marsh Christian Trust: London, GB

2017-01 | Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation 2017
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Helen Wang

Works (35)

The Avonmore Collection: Fred Catling and the First Major Private Collection of World Banknotes in the UK

Numismatic Chronicle
2024 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Helen Wang
Source: Self-asserted source
Helen Wang

The British Museum collection of money and medals of the Qing period

Cribb, J. and Wang, H. (2024). The British Museum collection of money and medals of the Qing period, Chapter 14 in Jessica Harrison-Hall (ed.), China’s 1800s: Material and Visual Culture (British Museum Research Publications), pp. 150-161. ISBN 978-0861592418.
2024 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Part of ISBN: 978-0861592418
Contributors: Helen Wang; Joe Cribb
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Helen Wang

The Grass House (tr. of Cao fangzi by Cao Wenxuan)

Balestier Press
2024 | Translation
ISBN: 978-1-913891-47-3
Contributors: Helen Wang
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Helen Wang

Hai Shan Swimming Pool (tr. of Hai Shan youyongguan by YANG Zhihan)

Granta
2024-11 | Translation
Contributors: Helen Wang
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Helen Wang

Archaeology in Afghanistan in the 20th Century As Reported in the French and British Press

Silk Roads Archaeology and Heritage
2024-08-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5334/srah.11
Contributors: Annick Fenet; Helen Wang
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Real Lives: Miss Lorimer (1883-1967)

The Historian
2024-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Helen Wang
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Helen Wang

Introduction: Our Silk Road Journeys with Aurel Stein

Silk Roads Archaeology and Heritage
2024-04-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5334/srah.12
Contributors: Helen Wang; Susan Whitfield
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Money on the Silk Road: research at the British Museum

Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society
2023 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Helen Wang; Joe Cribb; Elizabeth Errington; Vesta Curtis; Robert Bracey
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Helen Wang

Look at the Coins! Papers in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday

Archaeopress
2023-12 | Edited book | Conceptualization, Writing - review & editing
DOI: 10.32028/9781803276106
ISBN: 9781803276106
Contributors: Helen Wang; Robert Bracey
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Helen Wang

The Canton Ransom – What Happened to the Six Million Dollars of Silver?

Look at the Coins! Papers in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday
2023-12 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Part of DOI: 10.32028/9781803276106
Contributors: Helen Wang
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Helen Wang

Displays of money and medals at the British Museum, 1759 to 2022

Numismatic Chronicle
2022 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Helen Wang
Source: Self-asserted source
Helen Wang

Gandhara in the news: rediscovering Gandhara in The Times and other media

The Rediscovery and Reception of Gandhāran Art: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, University of Oxford, 24th-26th March, 2021
2022 | Book chapter
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Helen Wang

Money on the Silk Road - Research at the British Museum

Sichou zhi lu shang de Zhonghua wenming [Chinese CIvilization on the Silk Road]
2022 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-7-100-20826-0
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Helen Wang

Chinese Numismatics. The World of Chinese Money

Spink
2022-07-01 | Book
ISBN: 9-781912-667888
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Helen Wang

Transnational Dialogues: Children’s Literature Across Borders

Writing Chinese. A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature
2022-06-13 | Journal article
DOI: http://doi.org/10.22599/wcj.37
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Helen Wang

Chinese Money Matters – So why Does it Have Such a Low Profile?

Kunsttexte.de
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.18452/22300
DNB: 1224474619
URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22924-1
Contributors: Helen Wang
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Helen Wang via Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)

Dragonfly Eyes (tr. of Qingting yan by Cao Wenxuan)

Walker Books
2021 | Translation
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Helen Wang

Introduction to Special Issue: Asia Collections outside Asia: Questioning Artefacts, Cultures and Identities in the Museum

Kunsttexte.de
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.18452/22309
DNB: 1224474554
URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22933-0
Contributors: Iside Carbone; Helen Wang
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Helen Wang via Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)

Dinner for Six (Liu ren wan can, by Lu Min)

Balestier Press
2021-11-26 | Translation
ISBN: 9781913891329
Contributors: Helen Wang; Nicky Harman
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Helen Wang

Chinese children's books in English translation (co-authored with Minjie Chen)

The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies
2021-08-16 | Book chapter
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Helen Wang

L'édition de la correspondance francophone d'Aurel Stein : le dossier des sinologues

2019-03-25 | Conference paper
HAL: hal-02072797
Contributors: Annick Fenet; Helen Wang; Susan Whitfield
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Helen Wang via HAL

The Ventriloquist's Daughter (tr. of Fuyushi de nuer by Lin Man-Chiu)

Balestier Press
2017 | Translation
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Helen Wang

Bronze and Sunflower (tr. of Qingtong kuihua by Cao Wenxuan)

Walker Books (UK)
2015 | Translation
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Helen Wang

Acknowledgements

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
2013-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/s1356186313000102
Part of ISSN: 0035-869X
Part of ISSN: 2051-2066
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Helen Wang

Introduction

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
2013-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/s1356186313000126
Part of ISSN: 0035-869X
Part of ISSN: 2051-2066
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Helen Wang

Textiles as Money on the Silk Road?

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
2013-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/s135618631300014x
Part of ISSN: 0035-869X
Part of ISSN: 2051-2066
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Helen Wang

Jackal and Wolf (tr. of Hongchai by Shen Shixi)

Egmont UK
2012 | Translation
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Helen Wang

Sir Aurel Stein, colleagues and collections

2012 | Edited book
ISBN: 9780861591848
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Helen Wang

Catalogue of Japanese coin collection (pre-Meiji) at the British Museum : with special reference to Kutsuki Masatsuna

British Museum
2010 | Edited book
ISBN: 9780861591749
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Helen Wang

Chairman Mao badges : symbols and slogans of the Cultural Revolution

British Museum
2008 | Book
ISBN: 978 086159 169 5
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Helen Wang

The Music of Ink at the British Museum

2005 | Edited book
ISBN: 9781872843995
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Helen Wang

Money on the Silk Road: the evidence from Eastern Central Asia to c. AD 800

British Museum Press
2004 | Book
ISBN: 9780714118062
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Helen Wang

Sir Aurel Stein: proceedings of the British Museum study day, 23 March 2002

British Museum
2004 | Edited book
ISBN: 0861591429
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Helen Wang

Sir Aurel Stein in The Times: a collection of over 100 references to Sir Aurel Stein and his extraordinary expeditions to Chinese Central Asia, India, Iran, Iraq and Jordan in The Times newspaper 1901-1943

Saffron
2002 | Edited book
ISBN: 9781872843292
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Helen Wang

Metallurgical analysis of Chinese coins at the British Museum

British Museum
Edited book
ISBN: 9780861591527
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Helen Wang
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