Xinjiang Rong

Gebundenes Buch

The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges between East and West

Beschreibung

The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West, originally written in Chinese by Rong Xinjiang and now translated into English, provides insights into previously unresolved issues concerning the interactions among the societies, economies, religions and cultures of the "Western Regions", and beyond, during the first millennium.

Autor

Rong Xinjiang is the Boya Chair Professor in the Department of History at Peking University. He has made outstanding contributions in the fields of the history of Sino-Western cultural exchanges, the Silk Road, the Chinese history during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the history of Central Asia, as well as Dunhuang and Turfan studies. He has published hundreds of articles and monographs, some of which have also appeared in English, including Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang (Brill, 2013). In 2021, he was elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Sally K Church, Ph.D. (1992), Harvard University, is an Affiliated Researcher and a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, and a Research Associate at the Needham Research Institute. She publishes on China's historical involvement in maritime and overland communications. Professor Imre Galambos is a specialist in Chinese manuscripts. He obtained his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, with a dissertation on early Chinese writing. After graduation, he joined the International Dunhuang Project (IDP) at the British Library and began to work on the Dunhuang manuscripts. After ten years, he took up a teaching post at the University of Cambridge, where he is now Professor of Chinese. He has written extensively on the manuscripts excavated from sites along the historical Silk Roads.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 158mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1238g
• ISBN-13: 9789004512580
• ISBN-10: 9004512586
• Artikelnr.: 63764266