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The Silk Road : two thousand years in the heart of Asia
- Title
- The Silk Road : two thousand years in the heart of Asia / Frances Wood.
- Author
- Wood, Frances, 1948-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- 270 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps; 27 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- First published: London : Folio Society, 2002.
- Maps on lining papers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index.
- Contents
- 1. 'A ceaselessly flowing stream of life' -- 2. Coiled dragons and filmy fleeces: jade and silk -- 3. From Greece and Rome to China - and back again -- 4. A people abandoned by heaven: the Xiongnu and trade during the Han dynasty -- 5. The spread of trade and religions: Tocharians and Sogdians -- 6. The fashion for all things Central Asian -- 7. The caves of the thousand buddhas: Buddhism on the Silk Road -- 8. Tanguts, Mongols, Nestorians and Marco Polo -- 9. A parterre of roses: travellers to Ming China and Samarkand -- 10. The great game and the Silk Road -- 11. Asia held them captive in her cold embrace: explorers on the Silk Road -- 12. Trophies and tiger entrails: hunting and theorising on the Silk Road -- 13. Securing specimens: Aurel Stein -- 14. An end to excavation: Pelliot, von Le Coq and Warner -- 15. The baby general: travel on the Silk Road in the 1930s -- The Silk Road today.
- Call Number
- JFF 04-3355
- ISBN
- 0520237862
- LCCN
- 2003273631
- OCLC
- 53025795
- Author
- Wood, Frances, 1948-
- Title
- The Silk Road : two thousand years in the heart of Asia / Frances Wood.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFF 04-3355