The Silk Road : key papers

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The Silk Road : key papers

edited with an introduction by Valerie Hansen

Global Oriental, 2012

  • : [set]
  • pt. 1, v. 1
  • pt. 1, v. 2

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Contents: pt. 1. The pre-Islamic period

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The focus is when the Silk Road trade was at its height. Content is organized chronologically and geographically, concentrating on the sites which flourished in the 3rd and 4th centuries, then Turfan and Samarkand (500-800), closing with the period after 800, when Tang China withdrew troops from the region and local peoples reverted to a barter economy.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • SECTION I: The beginnings of the Silk Road
  • 1. The Development of Trade Between The Roman Empire and the East Under Augustus
  • 2. On the Question of Silk in pre-Han Eurasia
  • 3. The Desert Crossing of Hsuan-Tsang, 630 A.D
  • 4. Land route or sea route? Commentary on the study of the paths of transmission and areas in which Buddhism was disseminated during the Han period
  • SECTION II: The Kushan Empire and Beyond
  • 5. La Vieille Route Reconsidered: Alternative Paths for Early Transmission of Buddhism Beyond the Borderlands of South Asia
  • 6. New Light on Ancient Afghanistan: the decipherment of Bactrian
  • 7. Life in Third-fourth Century Cad'ota: A Survey of Information gathered from the Prakrit documents found north of Minfeng (Niya)
  • 8. Some Comments on Third-Century Shan-shan and the History of Buddhism
  • SECTION III: Kuche, Kumarajiva, and Broader Issues of Translation
  • 9. Perspectives in the Study of Chinese Buddhism
  • 10. India and China: Observations on Cultural Borrowing
  • 11. On the Interrelationship of the Tocharian Dialects
  • 12. The Position of Tocharian among the Other Indo-European Languages
  • SECTION IV: Samarkand and the Sogdians
  • 13. The Sogdian merchants in China and India
  • 14. The Self-Image of the Sogdians
  • 15. Wall Paintings from a House with a Granary. Panjikent, 1st Quarter of the Eighth Century A.D.
  • 16. New Work on the Sogdians, the most Important Traders on the Silk Road, A.D. 500-1000
  • 17. The Migrations and Settlements of the Sogdians in the Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang
  • SECTION V: Turfan
  • 18. A Concise History of the Turfan Oasis and its Exploration
  • 19. The Impact of the Silk Road Trade on a Local Community: The Turfan Oasis, 500-800
  • 20. Women in Turfan During the Sixth to Eighth Centuries: A Look at their Activities Outside the Home
  • 21. Textiles et tissus sur la route de la soie: elements pour une geographie de la production et des echanges
  • 22. Sasanian and Arab-Sasanian Silver Coins from Turfan: Their Relationship to International Trade and the Local Economy
  • 23. Money in Eastern Central Asia before AD 800
  • SECTION VI: Dunhuang and Khotan
  • 24. Multilingualism in Tun-huang
  • 25. Silk Road or Paper Road
  • 26. Tang
  • 27. The Khotanese in Dunhuang
  • 28. On the taxation system of pre-Islamic Khotan
  • 29. The Nature of the Dunhuang Library Cave and the Reasons for Its Sealing
  • Index

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