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Author | : Edgar Knobloch |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752497928 |
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Turkestan – the great landmass of Central Asia and Western China – is an intriguing meeting point of civilizations. Four major invasions – Greek, Arab, Mongol and Russian – together with Persian, Turkic and Chinese cultural influences, have made their mark on this vast and sometime forbidding region. The Great Silk Road ran to the West through it, while nomad and urban peoples combined over the centuries to produce a cultural flowering under Timur and his successors in the late medieval and early modern periods, through a rich profusion of artistic and architectural styles and ornament. In this comprehensive account of the culture and history of Central Asia, Edgar Knobloch describes the main centres of our human civilization. He spices the text with quotations from the works of contemporary travellers, while providing an expert's commentary on the archaeological, architectural and decorative features of the sites he describes. The stunning and evocative photographs are supplemented by numerous maps, incorporating the recent developments in the region's borders and frontiers. With up-to-date information on borders, check points and visas, Treasures of the Great Silk Road should appeal not only to scholars and those interested in the great cultural heritage of this region, but also to travellers to the region.
Author | : Annette L. Juliano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2001-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Stunning works in precious metals, glass, and stone -- many recently excavated and virtually unknown outside China -- shed new light on a pivotal epoch in Chinese history. From the 4th through 7th century, monks and merchants freely traveled along the fabled Silk Road, linking China with the west, propagating Buddhism, and purveying exotic goods and artifacts that fundamentally transformed Chinese culture and society. This sumptuous volume, the first to explore the magnificent treasures and sites of China's northwest section of the Silk Road, accompanies an exhibition at the Asia Society in New York. The text by an international team of scholars illuminates the importance of the region in this period of fertile cross-cultural exchanges between Eastern and Western Asia.
Author | : Peter Hopkirk |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : 9780192802118 |
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The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold, and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left, and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. But legends grew up of lost cities filled with treasurees and guarded by demons. In the early years of the 20th century, foreign explorers began to investigate these legends, and very soon an international race began for the art treasures of the Silk Road. Huge wall paintings, sculptures, and priceless manuscripts were carried away, literally by the ton, and are today scattered through the museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led these long-range archaeological raids, incurring the undying wrath of the Chinese.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Art objects, Chinese |
ISBN | : 9789813002487 |
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Author | : Edgar Knobloch |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752497928 |
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Turkestan – the great landmass of Central Asia and Western China – is an intriguing meeting point of civilizations. Four major invasions – Greek, Arab, Mongol and Russian – together with Persian, Turkic and Chinese cultural influences, have made their mark on this vast and sometime forbidding region. The Great Silk Road ran to the West through it, while nomad and urban peoples combined over the centuries to produce a cultural flowering under Timur and his successors in the late medieval and early modern periods, through a rich profusion of artistic and architectural styles and ornament. In this comprehensive account of the culture and history of Central Asia, Edgar Knobloch describes the main centres of our human civilization. He spices the text with quotations from the works of contemporary travellers, while providing an expert’s commentary on the archaeological, architectural and decorative features of the sites he describes. The stunning and evocative photographs are supplemented by numerous maps, incorporating the recent developments in the region’s borders and frontiers. With up-to-date information on borders, check points and visas, Treasures of the Great Silk Road should appeal not only to scholars and those interested in the great cultural heritage of this region, but also to travellers to the region.
Author | : Peter Hopkirk |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2011-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848546327 |
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The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. But legends grew up of lost cities filled with treasures and guarded by demons. In the early years of the last century foreign explorers began to investigate these legends, and very soon an international race began for the art treasures of the Silk Road. Huge wall paintings, sculptures and priceless manuscripts were carried away, literally by the ton, and are today scattered through the museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led these long-range archaeological raids, incurring the undying wrath of the Chinese.
Author | : Albert von Le Coq |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2018-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0429871414 |
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First published in 1928, this volume constituted the results of expeditions by the famous archaeologist and explorer of Central Asia, Albert von Le Coq. Funded by the last German emperor, Wilhelm II, and von Le Coq’s own brewing and winery empire, the second and third German expeditions ventured to Turfan in the Xinjiang region of China. Travelling East expecting to find Greek influences, the expedition in fact uncovered extensive networks of Buddhist and Manichaean cave temples in the Northwest China. This volume includes extensive images in addition to a record of the expedition’s journeys and discoveries.
Author | : Saeed Derakhshani |
Publisher | : Parthian Shot Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2014-12-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780990921707 |
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Step way back in time to little-known ancient persia for a rollicking adventure on the silk road. Silk Road merchant Persicus' life is turned upside down by an elderly one-armed man who entices Persicus to join him on a quest to find the legendary "Lost Treasure of the Silk Road." But bandits, betrayal, and bottomless pits are the least of his troubles. Taking advantage of the fall of the Persian Empire, evil King Salman leads his army of cutthroat bandits to conquer the ancient Sogdian enclave of Mishin. Strategically located on a major Silk Road trade route, this tolerant city of Zoroastrians welcomed all peaceful people and together they resisted centuries of attacks by the Islamic forces that destroyed the Persian Empire. On the eve of King Salman's attack, Persicus finds himself in the royal palace of Mishin. Can he summon the knowledge accumulated from a life traveling the Silk Road across the Asian continent to protect the benevolent King Ormozd against Salman's undefeated Turanian Army while trying to win the heart of the woman he loves?
Author | : Yin Cao |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Art objects, Chinese |
ISBN | : 9781741741223 |
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Introduction / Cao Yin -- The international world of the Tang dynasty / Jessica Rawson -- The Dunhuang Buddhist cave-temples / Edmund Capon -- Chang'an: cosmopolitan capital of the world / Cao Yin -- Famen Monastery / Cao Yin -- Western market and eastern market / Cao Yin -- The elegance of Tang women / Qi Dongfang -- Bringing peace to Chang'an's deceased / Zhang Jianlin.
Author | : Juliano Annette L /Lerner Jud |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2001-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780810921146 |
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