Significance of silk roads in the history of human civilizations /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Umesao, Tadao, 1920-2010, Sugimura, Tō, 1934-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Osaka : National Museum of Ethnology, 1992.
Series:Senri ethnological studies ; no. 32.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Silk Roads / Vadime Elisseeff
  • Cultural Exchange on the Ancient Steppe Route / Kato Kyuzo
  • Significance of Silk Road to Human Civilization / Ahmad Hasan Dani
  • Significance of Slik Roads Today / Shirin Akiner
  • Silk Road: A Culture of Imported Goods / Higuchi Takayasu
  • Behind the Prosperity of Silk Road / Masuda Seiichi
  • Music on Silk Roads / Fujii Tomoaki
  • Development of Japanese Research on Silk Road / Nagasawa Kazutoshi
  • From Chang An to Rome / Sugiyama Jiro
  • Physical Ornamentation in Tang Dynasty Zoomorphic Design / Hayashi Ryoichi
  • Buddhist Triad Icon in Gandhara / Higashiyama Kengo
  • Tocharian People / Lin Mei-cun
  • Small Buddhist Images from Siberia's Far East / Kato Kyuzo
  • Interaction of an Unknown Hill People in Northwestern Thailand with the Ancient Trade Along Silk Road / Sumitr Pitiphat
  • India's Place on Ancient Trade Routes / Bal Krishen Thapar
  • Persian and Chinese Art Exchanges Along Silk Roads / Akbar Mokhtar Tadjvidi
  • Chinese influence on Persian Paintings of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Sugimura Toh
  • Chinese Impact on Mamluk Minor Arts / Hassan El-Basha
  • Turkish Contributions to Cultural and Commercial Life Along Silk Road / Nejat Diyabekirli
  • Silk and the European Economy / Luigi de Rosa.