Civilizations of the Silk Road
| 1. Verfasser: |
Zhang, Xingang 1940-
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Humes, Bruce 1955-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London , New York :
Routledge;
2025.
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| Umfang/Format: |
viii, 270 pages, Illustrations, coloured maps. |
| ISBN: | 9781032439990 9781032440057 |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
ISSN: 9781003369899 Online-Ausgabe, Zhang, Xingang, 1940 -, Civilizations of the Silk Road (Erscheint auch als) | ISSN: 9781003369899 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Preface
- Chapter I "Civilization": origins, diversity & continuity
- Chapter II Alexander's Eastern campaigns, Hellenism & Gandharan art
- Chapter III Mysteries of the Western regions: pioneering Zhang Qian & Han dynasty explorers
- Chapter IV Buddhism's genesis: to the West is a deity, Buddha is his name
- Chapter V Buddhism's spread in China: contemporaries Kumarajiva and Faxian: the encounter that didn't happen
- Chapter VI Sogdians along the Silk Road
- Chapter VII Golden peaches of Samarkand
- Chapter VIII Silk & paper
- Chapter IX Printing migrates West, alphabets migrate East
- Chapter X Origins and spread of Islamic civilization
- Chapter XI Islam in China
- Chapter XII Rise of the Turkic-speaking peoples and their westward migration
- Chapter XIII Westward migration of the Turkic peoples: from the Syr Darya to the Danube
- Chapter XIV Eurasia under Mongol rule
- Chapter XV The Timurid empire & the Ming treasure voyages
- Bibliography
- Index.
