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The world of the ancient Silk Road

edited by Xinru Liu ; with the assistance of Pia Brancaccio

(The Routledge worlds)

Routledge, 2023

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Pagination varies: xxi, 593 p

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Offers the latest research on topics related to the Silk Roads across time and space, and includes contributions from a diverse body of authors, many of whom work and live in the lands of the Silk Roads. Provides references and some translations of primary and secondary sources in their original languages and scripts.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Changing landscape of the world of Silk Roads: terrains, ecology, languages, technology, Xinru Liu, Part I: Landscape of the Silk Road: from the Bronze age to the Beginning of Historical Records, 1. Kongquehe Bronze Age Culture - A Page of Early Eurasian History, Wang Binghua, 2. Tocharian Controversy: A Mobile Language Landscape of Central Asia, Xinru Liu, 3. Aramaic in the First Millennium BCE: Its Reception and Diffusion, Liu Jian, 4. Qirqiz, a People in the Forest and on the Steppe, Jia Yiken, 5. Invention and spread of horse chariots around Afro-Eurasia, Bruno Genito, 6. Horse Wagon with Bronze Wheel Felloe from Zhouyuan - Implication to the Exchanges between the East and West, Wang Peng, 7. Natural and Cultural History of the Camel, Renato Sala, 8. Cannabis and other plants with Peculiar Properties on the Silk Road, Kazim Abdullaev, Part II: Pastoral Nomads and Agricultural Societies, 9. Horse Archery Warfare and Rises and Falls of Nomadic Empires on the Eurasian Steppe, Craig Benjamin, 10. The Kushans, viz. the Da Yuezhi: A Century-Long Fallacy, Kuwayama Shoshin, 11. Looking for the city of horse, Mingtepa during the time of Dayuan Kingdom, Zhu Yanshi and Liu Tao, 12. Qirqiz/Kyrgyz, a People lived between Empires, Jia Yiken, 13. Images of Knights on the Great Silk Road, Kazim Abdullaev, Part III: Silk Trade and Caravan Cities, 14. Rise and Demise of Jingjue Kingdom, a Case of Tarim Oasis Politics, Ye Junshi, 15. Astana, Jiaohe, and other Turfan Cemeteries: the Movement of People, Ideas, and Objects in Gaochang Kingdom (442-640), Armin Selbitschka, 16. Turfan, the Frontier transmitting Smallpox to Tang China, Song Xian, 17. Caravan cities in the Roman Near East: Palmyra and Petra, Hamish Cameron, 18. The Chitral Ya u and a Route Southward in the First Century BCE, Shoshin Kuwayama, 19. Kabul and the Regional Centers of Eastern Afghanistan in their Historical Perspective, Minoru Inaba, 20. Routes of Swat, New Perspectives, Luca M. Olivieri, 21. The Silk Road and the 'Cotton Road': Buddhist Art and Practice between Central Asia and the Western Deccan, Pia Branccacio, 22. Egyptian Textiles and Networks of Exchange prior to and following the Arab-Islamic Conquest, Arielle Winnik, 23. Sino-Arabian Economic and Cultural Exchanges from the 8th to the 15th centuries, Lin Meicun and Ran Zhang, Part IV: Empires and Religions, 24. Elephants, Greeks, and Gold: The Silk Road in the Age of Hellenistic Empires, Benjamin Abbott, 25. The Western Lord of Treasures - Viewing the Byzantine Empire from Tang Dynasty Chang'an, Lin Ying, 26. Sogdian Religion along the Silk Road: Variations of Zoroastrianism in Medieval China, Zhang Xiaogui, 27. Buddhist Propagation and Language Barriers, Xinru Liu, 28. Silk-Horse between the Tang Empire and the Xiagasi/Kyrgyz, Li Jinxiu, 29. Roman market for silks, heavy brocade or light crepe?, Berit Hildebrandt, 30. Christian discourses about silks in antiquity, Berit Hildebrandt, 31. The Creation and Spread of Tiraz Textiles across the Silk Road, Arielle Winnik, 32. Virtual Silk Roads: Objects, Exhibitions, Learners, Daniel Waugh.

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