Nomads, Traders and Holy Men Along China’s Silk Road

edited by Annette Juliano and Judith Lerner

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Extent: 132 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Buddhist Studies

Series: Silk Road Studies

Series volume number: 7

Language: English

(Hardback) (Out of print)

(February 2003)

ISBN: 9782503521787

Price: $58.00

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This collection of papers formed part of the symposium, Nomads, Traders and Holy Men Along China’s Silk Road, held at the Asia Society in New York on November 9-10, 2001. Although the Silk Road has inspired several important museum exhibitions, none had focused on the Hexi Corridor nor attempted to analyze the complexity of the cross-cultural relationships within China’s borders. Nor had any exhibition focused on the nearly four hundred years of political disunity, nomadic incursions and social upheaval, brought about by the collapse of the great Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), that then, after a series of short-lived dynasties, culminated in the reunification of China under the Tang empire (618-906).

A. L. Juliano and J. A. Lerner
Introduction W. Hung
What is Dunhuang Art? B. I. Marshak
Central Asia from the Third to the Seventh Century J. Rawson
Strange Beasts in Han and Post-Han Imagery S. Muller
The Nomads of the Fifth Century: The Tuoba Xianbei D. Wong
Buddhist Steles from the Gansu/Ningxia Region R. N. Frye
The Merchant World of the Sogdians G. Zhang
The Role of the Sogdians as Translators of Buddhist Texts A. Jiayao
When Glass Was Treasured in China P. O. Harper
Iranian Luxury Vessels in China from the Late First Millennium B.C.E. to the Second Half of the First Millennium C.E. B. Lawergren
Waisted Drums in Ancient China and Eurasia S. Tuohy
Musical Intersections: Local Festivals As Cosmopolitan Centers of Exchange

  • Edited by Annette Juliano
  • Edited by Judith Lerner