The Silk Road and cultural exchanges between East and West
Bibliographic Information
The Silk Road and cultural exchanges between East and West
by Rong Xinjiang ; translated by Sally K. Church, et al. ; edited by Sally K. Church and Imre Galambos
（East and west : culture, diplomacy and interactions / edited by Chuxiong George Wei, v.14）
Brill, c2023
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Sichou zhilu yu dongxi wenhua jiaoliu
丝绸之路与东西文化交流
丝绸之路与东西文化交流
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"This book is translated into English from the original ≪丝绸之路与东西文化交流≫ (荣新江著) (Sichou zhilu yu dongxi wenhua jiaoliu by Rong Xinjiang), published by Peking University Press in 2015."--T.p. verso
Summary: "This first and only English translation of Rong Xinjiang's The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West is a collection of 28 papers on the history of the Silk Road and the interactions among the peoples and cultures of East and Central Asia, including the so-called Western Regions in modern-day Xinjiang. Each paper is a masterly study that combines information obtained from historical records with excavated materials, such as manuscripts, inscriptions and artefacts. The new materials primarily come from north-western China, including sites in the regions of Dunhuang, Turfan, Kucha, and Khotan. The book contains a wealth of original insights into nearly every aspect of the complex history of this region"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography: p. [593]-671
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This first and only English translation of Rong Xinjiang's The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West is a collection of 28 papers on the history of the Silk Road and the interactions among the peoples and cultures of East and Central Asia, including the so-called Western Regions in modern-day Xinjiang. Each paper is a masterly study that combines information obtained from historical records with excavated materials, such as manuscripts, inscriptions and artefacts. The new materials primarily come from north-western China, including sites in the regions of Dunhuang, Turfan, Kucha, and Khotan. The book contains a wealth of original insights into nearly every aspect of the complex history of this region.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures, Maps and Tables
Translators
part 1: The Silk Road
1 The Silk Road and Ancient Xinjiang
Translated by Sally K. Church
2 The Anxi Protectorate and the Silk Road in the Tang Period, with a Focus on the Documents Excavated at Turfan
Translated by Sally K. Church
3 Beiting on the Silk Road (7th-10th Centuries)
Translated by Li Huawei
4 The City of Tongwan and the History of Sino-Western Communications in the Medieval Period
Translated by Sally K. Church
5 Gaochang in the Second Half of the 5th Century and its Relations with the Rouran Qaghanate and the Kingdoms of the Western Regions
Translated by Sally K. Church
part 2: Cultural Exchange and Interaction
6 Persian and Chinese: The Integration of Two Cultures in the Tang Dynasty
Translated by Li Huawei and Zheng Chunhua
7 New Evidence on the History of Contacts between the Tang Dynasty and the Abbasid Caliphate: Yang Liangyao's Embassy
Translated by Sally K. Church
8 Cultural Contacts between China and India from the Late Tang to the Early Song in Light of the Dunhuang Manuscripts
Translated by Zhou Liqun and Zhu Chenfeng
9 Historical Evidence for Cultural Exchanges between the Tang and Silla: The Inscription for the Meditation Cloister at the Dayun Monastery in Haizhou
Translated by Li Huawei
10 Diplomatic Relations in East Asia in the 8th Century and Japanese Embassies to Tang China
Translated by June Manjun Zhang
11 The Official Reception of Japanese Envoys during the Tang Dynasty as Seen from the Epitaph of I no Manari
Translated by June Manjun Zhang
part 3: The Westward Spread of Chinese Culture
12 The Network of Chinese Buddhist Monasteries in the Western Regions under Tang Control
Translated by June M. Zhang
13 The Circulation of Chinese Texts in the Region of Kucha in the Tang Dynasty: The German Turfan Collection
Translated by Sally K. Church
14 The Transmission of Chan Buddhism to the Western Regions in the Tang Dynasty
Translated by Mia Ye Ma
15 The "Lanting xu" in the Western Regions
Translated by James Kunling He
16 The Transmission of Wang Xizhi's "Shang xiang Huang Qi tie" in the Western Regions
Translated by James Kunling He
17 Reception and Rejection: The Transmission of Chinese Texts into the Western Regions during the Tang Dynasty
Translated by Sally K. Church
part 4: Contributions to China of Foreign Material Culture
18 Sogdian Merchants and Sogdian Culture on the Silk Road
Translated by Flavia Xi Fang
19 Currency on the Silk Road and the Sogdian Merchants
Translated by Sally K. Church
20 The Life of a Sogdian Leader on the Silk Road - A Rough Summary of the Images on Shi Jun's Sarcophagus
Translated by Tong Yangyang
21 Khotanese Felt and Sogdian Silver: Foreign Gifts to Buddhist Monasteries in 9th and 10th Century Dunhuang
Translated by Sarah Fraser
22 The Exchange of Silk Textiles between Dunhuang and Khotan during the 10th Century
Translated by Sally K. Church
part 5: The Transmission of the Three Foreign Religions
23 The Colophon of the Manuscript of the Golden Light Sutra Excavated in Turfan and the Transmission of Zoroastrianism to Gaochang
Translated by Li Huawei
24 Buddhist Images or Zoroastrian Deities? Religious Syncretism on the Silk Road as Seen from Khotan
Translated by Flavia Xi Fang
25 Further Discussion of the Mixing of Religions on the Silk Road: A New View of the Buddhist Murals in Khotan
Translated by Mia Ye Ma
26 Jingjiao Christians as Heretics in the Eyes of Buddhists and Daoists of the Tang Dynasty
Translated by Flavia Xi Fang
27 The Authenticity of Some Jingjiao Texts from Dunhuang
Translated by Sun Jicheng
28 The Western Regions: The Last Paradise of Manichaeism
Translated by Sally K. Church
Epilogue
Translated by Sally K. Church
Appendix: Introduction to Converting Chinese Dates into Western Dates
by "Nielsen BookData"