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The Silk Road : two thousand years in the heart of Asia / Frances Wood.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002. Description: 270 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780520237865
  • 0520237862
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS33.1. W66 2002
Contents:
Contents: Note on spellings—1. ‘A ceaselessly flowing stream of life’—2. Coiled dragons and filmy fleeces : jade and silk—3. From Greece and Rome to China-and back again—4. A people abandoned by heaven : the Xiongnu and trade during the Han dynasty—5. The spread of trade and religions : Tocharians and Sogdians—6. The fashion for all things central Asian—7. The caves of the thousand Buddhas : Buddhism on the silk road—8. Tanguts, Mongols, Nestorians and Marco Polo—9. A parterre of roses : travelers to Ming China and Samarkad—10. The great game and the silk road—11. Asia held them captive in her cold embrace : explorers on the silk road—12. Trophies and tiger entrails : hunting and theorizing on the silk road—13. Securing specimens : Aurel Stein—14. An end to excavation : Pelliot, von Le Coq and Warner—15. The baby general : travel on the Silk road in the 1930s epilogue : the silk road today—Refernces—List of illustrations—Acknowledgements—Index.
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Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University DS33.1.W66 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3ACKU000370311
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First published: London : Folio Society, 2002.

Maps on lining pages.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Note on spellings—1. ‘A ceaselessly flowing stream of life’—2. Coiled dragons and filmy fleeces : jade and silk—3. From Greece and Rome to China-and back again—4. A people abandoned by heaven : the Xiongnu and trade during the Han dynasty—5. The spread of trade and religions : Tocharians and Sogdians—6. The fashion for all things central Asian—7. The caves of the thousand Buddhas : Buddhism on the silk road—8. Tanguts, Mongols, Nestorians and Marco Polo—9. A parterre of roses : travelers to Ming China and Samarkad—10. The great game and the silk road—11. Asia held them captive in her cold embrace : explorers on the silk road—12. Trophies and tiger entrails : hunting and theorizing on the silk road—13. Securing specimens : Aurel Stein—14. An end to excavation : Pelliot, von Le Coq and Warner—15. The baby general : travel on the Silk road in the 1930s epilogue : the silk road today—Refernces—List of illustrations—Acknowledgements—Index.

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