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Kizil on the Silk Road : Crossroads of Commerce and Meeting of Minds by Rajeshwari Ghose (2008, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMarg Publications
ISBN-108185026858
ISBN-139788185026855
eBay Product ID (ePID)65649637
Product Key Features
Book TitleKizil on the Silk Road : Crossroads of Commerce and Meeting of Minds
Number of Pages148 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicAsian / Chinese, Asia / General, Decorative Arts
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Art, History
AuthorRajeshwari Ghose
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight39.8 Oz
Item Length12.5 in
Item Width10 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-307091
SynopsisRecently, the academic world celebrated 100 years of the opening of Cave 17 or the Library Cave, a veritable treasure house of Silk Road artifacts, in Dunhuang, the eastern terminus of the silk routes. Celebrations recording a hundred years of Tocharian Studies soon followed. The complexity of documenting the cultural artifacts of the so-called Silk Road becomes clear when it is remembered that between 1900 - 1925 just six men made what have been called archaeological raids into this remote corner of Central Asia. Between them until the 1940s they removed wall paintings, manuscripts, sculptures and other treasures literally by tons from the lost cities of the Silk Road. Today this great Central Asian collection, apart from what is in situ, is scattered through museums and institutions of at least 12 different countries. To even see some of this treasure one has to travel to Great Britain, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States, and have to visit over 30 institutions. The German expedition alone collected manuscripts in more than 20 languages and 25 scripts on silk, leather, birch, bark, wood paper, and more. Little wonder then that the articles on Kizil and generally on the Silk Road lie buried in obscure publications in different languages, Chinese, German and Russian being the most frequently used, apart from English., The time seems to be favorable for this publication, which focuses on Kizil, an important landmark in the transmission of Buddhist Art and Thought along the Silk Road.
LC Classification NumberND2849.K6K65 2008
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