Author: Wu ZhenPublisher:
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Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"Hu" Non-chinese as They Appear in the Materials from the Astana Graveyard at Turfan
Author: Wu ZhenSui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors
Author: Jonathan Karam SkaffPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199734135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
A comparative history that reconsiders China's relations with the rest of Eurasia, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other.
Dunhuang Manuscript Culture
Author: Imre GalambosPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110727102
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
“Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty different languages and scripts, including Chinese, Tibetan, Old Uighur, Khotanese, Sogdian and Sanskrit. This study centres around four groups of manuscripts from the mid-ninth to the late tenth centuries, a period when the region was an independent kingdom ruled by local families. The central argument is that the manuscripts attest to the unique cultural diversity of the region during this period, exhibiting—alongside obvious Chinese elements—the heavy influence of Central Asian cultures. As a result, it was much less ‘Chinese’ than commonly portrayed in modern scholarship. The book makes a contribution to the study of cultural and linguistic interaction along the Silk Roads.
Transcending Patterns
Author: Mariachiara GaspariniPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824881702
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Through the analysis of the Turfan Textile Collection in the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin and more than a thousand textiles held in collections worldwide, Gasparini discloses and reconstructs the rich cultural entanglements along the Silk Road, between the coming of Islam and the rise of the Mongol Empire, from the Tarim to Mediterranean Basin. Exploring in detail the iconographic transfer between different agents and different media from Central Asian caves to South Italian churches, the author depicts and describes the movement and exchange of portable objects such as sculpture, wall painting, and silk fragments across the Asian continent and across the ages. Gasparini’s history offers critical perspectives that extend far beyond an outmoded notion of “Silk Road studies.” Her cross-media work shows readers how certain material cultures are connected not only by the physical routes they take but also because of the meanings and interpretations these objects engage in various places. Transcending Patterns is at once art history, material and visual cultural history, Asian studies, conservatory studies, and linguistics.
The Silk Road
Author: Valerie HansenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195159314
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Silk Road conjures up an image of a 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.
Great Journeys across the Pamir Mountains
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004362258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Drawing upon numerous manuscripts from China and Central Asia, the articles presented in this volume by leading scholars in the field examine a broad range of topics on the multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic communities along the Silk Road in the medieval period, and cover such topics as the social history of Kucha, book history in Dunhuang, the spread of Manichaeism, the political history of Turkic and Khotanese Kingdoms, and the travelogue of the Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang. They demonstrate that Han Chinese, Khotanese, Sogdians, Tocharians, Tibetans, and Uyghurs have all contributed to constructing a sophisticated international network across Asia. Contributors are: Bi Bo, Chao-jung Ching, Jean Pierre Drège, Ogihara Hirotoshi, Xiaohe Ma, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Xinjiang Rong, Tokio Takata, Xiaofu Wang, Wenkan Xu, Yutaka Yoshida, Lishuang Zhu, Peter Zieme.
Some Classical Malay Materials for the Study of the Chinese Novel Journey to the West
Author: Hoong Teik TohPublisher:
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Category : Chinese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A Southern Min Word in the Tsu-t'ang Chi
Author: Tim MillerPublisher:
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Category : Southern Min dialects
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The Context of the Anau Seal
Author: Fredrik Talmage HiebertPublisher:
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Category : Anau Site (Turkmenistan)
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Correspondences of Cultural Words Between Old Chinese and Proto-Indo-European
Author: Zhou JixuPublisher:
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description