THE SILK ROAD
Written by Frances Wood
Published by Folio Society
in 2002
- Categorised in:
- FOLIO SOCIETY
- TOPOGRAPHY (FOREIGN)
- ASIA
- CHINA
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
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Front cover
Contents
- Note on Spellings
- 1 'A ceaselessly flowing steam 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 dynsasty
- 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 of excavation: Pelliot, von Le Coq and Warner
- 15 The Baby General: travel on the Silk Road in the 1930's
- Epilogue: the Silk Road today