The Silk Roads

Informationen zum Autor Xinru Liu Klappentext For more than 1500 years, across more than 4000 miles, the Silk Roads connected East and West. These overland trails and sea lanes carried not only silks, but also cotton textiles, dyes, horses, incense, spices, gems, glass, and ceramics along with religious ideas, governing customs, and technology. For this book, Xinru Liu has assembled primary sources from ancient China, India, Central Asia, Rome and the Mediterranean, and the Islamic world, many of them difficult to access and some translated into English for the first time. Liu's thoughtful introduction considers the many ways the peoples along the Silk Roads interacted and helps students understand the implications for economies and societies, as well as political and religious institutions, over space and time.  Zusammenfassung For more than 1500 years, across more than 4000 miles, the Silk Roads connected East and West. Liu's thoughtful introduction considers the many ways the peoples along the Silk Roads interacted and helps students understand the implications for economies and societies, as well as political and religious institutions, over space and time. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordPrefaceList of Maps and Illustrations  PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: FROM THE RISE OF THE SILK ROADS TO A EURASIAN MARKET SYSTEMChina's Trade on the Western Frontier, Second-First Centuries B.C.ERome's Trade to the East, First Century BCE-Second Century C.E.The Kushan Empire and the Influence of Buddhism, Second Century B.C.E.-Second Century C.E.The Oasis Towns of Central Asia and the Spread of Buddhism, Third-Seventh Centuries C.E.The Byzantine Empire and Silks in Royal Purple, Sixth-Ninth Centuries C.E.The Tang Empire and Foreign Traders and Priests, Eighth-Tenth Centuries C.E.Muslim Baghdad in the Eurasian Market, Ninth-Eleventh Centuries C.E.Trade Networks from the Mediterranean to the South China Sea, Tenth-Thirteenth Centuries C.E. PART TWO. THE DOCUMENTS1.  China's Trade on the Western Frontier, Second-First Centuries B.C.E.1. Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian of China, Early First Century B.C.E.2. Ban Gu, History of the Former Han Dynasty, Late First Century C.E.3. Documents Excavated from Juyan Fort on the Great Wall, ca. 103 B.C.E.-40 C.E.     Letter from an Officer to His Wife     Travelers' Passports      Soldiers' Work Assignments2.  Rome's Trade to the East, First Century B.C.E.-Second Century C.E.4. Strabo, The Geography, Early First Century C.E.5. Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander, ca. 145-60 C.E. 6. Pliny, Natural History, 77 C.E. 7. The Voyage around the Red Sea, First Century C.E.8. Ptolemy, The Geography, Mid-Second Century C.E.3.  The Kushan Empire and the Influence of Buddhism, Second Century B.C.E.-Second Century C.E.9. The Questions of King Milinda, ca. 166-150 B.C.E.10. The Lotus of the True Law, First Century B.C.E.-First Century C.E.11. The Amitabha Sutra, First Century B.C.E.-First Century C.E. 12. Votive Inscription on a Silver Plaque from Taxila, First-Second Centuries C.E. 4.  The Oasis Towns of Central Asia and the Spread of Buddhism, Third-Seventh Centuries C.E. 13. Documents Excavated from the Ruins of Niya, Third Century C.E.     Contract for the Sale of a Vineyard      An Ownership Dispute about a Slave      Regulations for a Community of Monks 14. Nanai-vandak, Letter to the Noble Lord Varzákk, ca. 313 C.E.  15. Faxian, A Record of the Buddhist Kingdoms, ca. 416 C.E.16. Song Yun and Huisheng, The Mission of Song Yun and Huisheng, ca. 547 C.E.17. Huili and Yanzong, The Life of Xuanzang, ca. 664-688 C.E.  18. Inventories Excavated from a Turfan Cemetery, Mid-Seventh Century C.E.       Tang Zhuanghui, ca. 641 C.E.     Xinfu, 672 C.E.  5.  The Byzantine Empire and Silks in Royal Purple, Sixth-Ninth Centuries C.E.19. Procopius, History of the Wars, ca. 550 C.E.20. Procopius, The Secret History, ca. 550 C.E. 21. The Book of the Eparch, ca. 895 C.E.6.  The ...

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• Autori: Xinru Liu, Liu Xinru, Na Na
• Editore: Palgrave USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.03.2012
• EAN: 9780312475512
• ISBN: 978-0-312-47551-2
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 210 mm x 10 mm
• Serie: Bedford Series in History & Cu
• Categorie: Saggistica; B, History, Asian History, Asia—History