The Silk Road : trade, travel, war and faith

by: Whitfield

Publication date: 2004

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Topics: pahar.in, Stein, Aurel 1862-1943, Art -- Central Asian -- Exhibitions, Art -- Asie centrale -- Expositions, 15.75 history of Asia, Art, Zijderoute, Silk Road -- History -- Exhibitions, Asia, Central -- History -- Exhibitions, Route de la soie -- Histoire -- Expositions, Asie centrale -- Histoire -- Expositions, Central Asia, Asia -- Silk Road, Seidenstraße

Publisher: Chicago, IL : Serindia Publications

Collection: IndiaHistory; JaiGyan

Language: English

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366 pages : 30 cm

Catalog of an exhibition held at the British Library May 7-Sept. 12, 2004

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-353) and index

The rise of Sogdian merchants and the role of the Huns : the historical importance of the ancient Sogdian letters / Etienne de la Vaissière -- How much for a camel? : a new understanding of money on the Silk Road before A.D. 800 / Helen Wang -- Iranians, Indians, Chinese and Tibetans : the rulers and ruled of Khotan in the first millennium / Prods Oktor Skjærvø -- Jade and the Silk Road : trade and tribute in the first millennium / Carol Michaelson -- The Tibetan military system and its activities from Khotan to Lop-Nor / Tsuguhito Takeuchi -- Official life at Dunhuang in the tenth century : the case of Cao Yuanzhong / Rong Xinjiang -- Where chan and tantra meet : Tibetan syncretism in Dunhuang / Sam van Schaik and Jacob Dalton -- Dunhuang characters and the dating of manuscripts / by Imre Galambos -- Star charts on the Silk Road : astronomical star maps in ancient China / by Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud and Françoise Praderie -- Aurel Stein, the British Museum and the India Office / by Frances Wood -- A short history of the conservation of the Dunhuang manuscripts in London / by Mark Barnard and Frances Wood -- The catalogue -- Sogdiana : trade, travel and faith -- Khotan -- Kroraina : a desert kingdom -- Miran : war and faith -- Dunhuang : watchtowers and cave temples -- Gaochong : nomads and farmers

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