The Silk Road : trade, travel, war and faith
| Körperschaft: |
British Library
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Whitfield, Susan, 1960-
Sims-Williams, Ursula |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London :
British Library,
2004.
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| Umfang/Format: |
366 p. : col. ill., maps ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0712348549 0-7123-4858-1 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Asia Mittelasien Süd- /Südostasien |
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Table of contents |
Inhaltsangabe:
- The rise of Sogdian merchants and the role of the Huns : the historical importance of the ancient Sogdian letters / by Etienne de la Vaissière
- How much for a camel? : a new understanding of money on the Silk Road before A.D. 800 / by Helen Wang
- Iranians, Indians, Chinese and Tibetans : the rulers and ruled of Khotan in the first millennium / by Prods Oktor Skjærvø
- Jade and the Silk Road : trade and tribute in the first millennium / by Carol Michaelson
- The Tibetan military system and its activities from Khotan to Lop-Nor / by Tsuguhito Takeuchi
- Official life at Dunhuang in the tenth century : the case of Cao Yuanzhong / by Rong Xinjiang
- Where chan and tantra meet : Tibetan syncretism in Dunhuang / by Sam van Schaik and Jacob Dalton
- Dunhuang characters and the dating of manuscripts / by Imre Galambos
- Star charts on the Silk Road : astronomical star maps in ancient China / by Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud and Françoise Praderie
- Aurel Stein, the British Museum and the India Office / by Frances Wood
- A short history of the conservation of the Dunhuang manuscripts in London / by Mark Barnard and Frances Wood
- The catalogue
- Sogdiana : trade, travel and faith
- Khotan
- Kroraina : a desert kingdom
- Miran : war and faith
- Dunhuang : watchtowers and cave temples
- Gaochong : nomads and farmers.
