Civilizations of the Silk Road

1. Verfasser: Zhang, Xingang 1940- , [VerfasserIn]
Weitere Verfasser: Humes, Bruce 1955- , [ÜbersetzerIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London , New York : Routledge; 2025.
Umfang/Format: viii, 270 pages, Illustrations, coloured maps.
ISBN: 9781032439990
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ISSN: 9781003369899
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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.