The Silk Road : trade, travel, war and faith

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The Silk Road : trade, travel, war and faith

edited by Susan Whitfield with Ursula Sims-Williams

Serindia Publications, 2004

  • cloth : alk. paper
  • : pbk

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Note

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-353) and index

Contents of Works

  • 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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