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The Silk Road conjures up an image a lone traveler carrying silk as he sits atop a camel and moves along a desert highway. This book offers concrete evidence for what he was really carrying and where he was heading, looking at the key sites along the multiple silk roads, using newly discovered documents preserved in the sands of the Taklamakan Desert.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. At the Crossroads of Central Asia: The Kingdom of Kroraina
- 2. Gateway to the Languages of the Silk Road: Kucha and the Kizil Caves
- 3. Midway Between China and Iran: Turfan
- 4. Homeland of the Sogdians, the Silk Road Traders: Samarkand and Sogdiana
- 5. The Cosmopolitan Terminus of the Silk Road: Historic Chang'an, Modern-day Xi'an
- 6. The Time Capsule of Silk Road History: The Dunhuang Caves
- 7. Entryway into Xinjiang for Buddhism and Islam: Khotan
- Conclusion: The History of the Overland Routes through Central Asia
- Notes
- Index
Produktdetails
Erscheinungsdatum
01. August 2015
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
328
Autor/Autorin
Valerie Hansen
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
581 g
Größe (L/B/H)
234/156/25 mm
ISBN
9780190218423
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Richly illustrated, The Silk Road: A New History is a monumental work of synthesis... It is a celebration of the drudgery of sifting ancient trash, of the painstaking work of recovering multilingual documents found in fragments, clumps, and, at the Mogao Caves, one great bibliographical hoard... Whether in Sogdian, Khotanese, Kuchean, or Uighur languages that make the discoveries of early Chinese texts seem almost pedestrian it is the decipherment of these lost languages that allows Hansen to bring the Silk Road so fully to life.... Summarizing more than a century of research, it is unlikely to be surpassed till the discoveries of another generation demand incorporation. Nile Green, Los Angeles Review of Books
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