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During the early period of the Joseon Dynasty, the government undertook currency reform at both central and local levels to promote currency exchange and restructure market order. Drawing on historical sources and utilizing game theory methodologies, this study examines the challenges of state governance and the dynamics of central-local relations during this era. The findings suggest that the establishment of the Joseon Dynasty's governance system arose from the rulers' deliberate decisions; however, it was also driven by the necessity to reconcile the development of productive forces with the superstructure. The study highlights the impact of the "official" issue on communication efficiency between central and local authorities, which contributed to the currency reform's failure. Consequently, the central government's regulation and control over local regions, as well as its ability to govern the aspirations of grassroots populations, emerged as crucial factors for successful national governance. This research provides valuable insights into the academic value and significance of historical state governance practices and informs contemporary centrallocal relations and policy development.

This dissertation traces a lost landscape tradition and investigates cross-cultural relationships between Korea, China and Japan during the fifteenth and mid sixteenth centuries. To this end, the main research is given to Landscapes, a set of three hanging scrolls in the Mori Museum of Art in Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan. Although Landscapes is traditionally attributed to the Chinese master Mi Youren (1075-1151) based on title inscriptions on their painting boxes, the style of the scrolls indicates that the painter was a follow of another Northern Song master, Guo Xi (ca. 1020-ca. 1090). By investigating various aspects of the Mori scrolls such as the subject matter, style, its possible painter and provenance as well as other cultural aspects that surround the scrolls, this dissertation traces a distinctive but previously unrecognized landscape tradition that existed in early Joseon times. The dissertation research challenges the An Gyeon-centered view of landscape art and gives an expanded perspective that furthers our understanding of early Joseon paintings. Through this process of examination and assessment of early Joseon paintings, this dissertation also touches upon the intimate political, trade and cultural relationships between China, Korea and Japan as materialized in the inter-Asian crisscrossing of art works and cultural trends during the fifteenth to mid sixteenth centuries. Especially, it shows the sharing of cultural trends between the Joseon and Ming courts, and also explores the frequent political and material culture exchanges between the Joseon court and the Ouchi clan of Japan. Lastly, this dissertation attempts to trace how early Joseon paintings were transmitted to Japan and lost their Korean identity in the process of authentication by Japanese connoisseurs during the Muromachi (1392-1573) and early Edo (1603-1867) periods. The result is an expanded view of the vigor and creativity of the early Joseon period and its significance in the larger history of Korean art and culture that can be ...