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The Silk Road. We Have A Hazy Mental Image: A Lone Traveler Carrying Silk On A Camel Moves Along A Desert. Where Exactly Is He Going And What Goods Is He Carrying? This Book Offers Concrete Answers Based On Newly Discovered Documents Preserved In The Sands Of The Taklamakan Desert. It Is Amazing What Has Been Dug Up, And How The New Materials--both Documents And Artifacts--radically Challenge Our Understanding Of The Silk Road. Historians Have Only Recently Begun To Piece Together And Make Sense Of These Materials, Which Give A Far Clearer Picture Of Actual Silk Road. Placing These Documentary Finds At The Heart Of The Narrative, This Book Also Tells The Story Of The Different Explorers Who Found These Documents, And It Teases Out The Implications Of These Documents For Our Understanding Of The Silk Road (we Learn, For Example, That The Silk 'road' Was Not Really A Road, And That No One Used The Term 'silk Road' In The Past.) The Book Focuses On The Seven Most Important Silk Road Sites That Have Produced Document And Objects From The Silk Road. Six (niya, Kucha, Turfan, Dunhuang, Khotan, And Xi'an) Are Located In Northwest China; The Seventh, Samarkand, Is In Modern Uzbekistan. Thi

Author

Hansen, Valerie, 1958- author

Publisher

Oxford University Press Academic US

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190208936

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (53 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14