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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Valerie Hansen is Professor of History at Yale University. Her books include The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600, Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600-1400, Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276, and, with Kenneth R. Curtis, Voyages in World History. To find out more about Valerie Hansen and The Silk Road, visit her website at www.valerie-hansen.com.
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* 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
* 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
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