Byzantium to China : religion, history and culture on the silk roads : studies in honour of Samuel N.C. Lieu / edited by Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Ken Parry.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This collection of papers reflects the interests and influence of Samuel N. C. Lieu on scholars and students during his academic career. It demonstrates not only the importance of his work on Manichaeism, but his broader intellectual contribution to early Christian, Roman, Byzantine, and comparative historical studies. His impact on Manichaean studies has been unparalleled resulting in several prestigious book series devoted to the linguistic and historical study of Mani and his religion. It is largely thanks to his enterprise that scholars now have access to an extensive library of texts and images unavailable to earlier researchers. The volume honours the life and work of a remarkable scholar of international renown.

1 Nārāyaṇa Buddha: Adaptation of Manichaean Prophetology in South, Central, and East Asia / Jason BeDuhn -- Sacred Space: The Orkhon Valley and the Empires of the Steppe / Craig Benjamin -- The Nag Hammadi Codices and Monasticism / Malcolm Choat -- Non-Zoroastrians in Zoroastrian Law: The Sasanian Law Book in Comparison to Later Pahlavi Texts / Iris Colditz -- An Uncivilized Empire: Xuanzang on Persia / Max Deeg -- Another Coptic Manichaean Psalm to Jesus (Nº 242)  / Jean-Daniel Dubois -- Rome’s Eastern Trade and Imperialism from Augustus to the Severans / Peter M. Edwell -- A Stranger Twice Over: Manichaean Ideology and Mission / Majella Franzmann -- The Construction of an Iranian Lineage for Manichaeism / Iain Gardner -- Procopius and the Kings of Persia / Geoffrey Greatrex -- The Footprint of Mani’s Book of Pictures in Late Antique Sources: An Assessment of Social and Geographical Data about Teaching with Images among the Manichaeans During the 3rd and 4th Centuries / Zsuzsanna Gulácsi -- Debating with the Jews at Turfan / Erica C.D. Hunter -- Between Marcion and Mani: Open Questions for a Continuing Conversation / Judith M. Lieu -- Chinese and Western Resources for a Global Ethic / Torbjörn Lodén -- Mani Eats Greek Bread: The Sitz im Leben of the Cologne Mani-Codex / Paul McKechnie -- Xuanzong’s Edict of 732 on Manichaeism / Gunner Mikkelsen -- Historical Fiction in Syriac and the Clash of Religions and Cultures in the Late Antique Near East / Fergus Millar† -- More Fruits and Trees in Manichaean Sogdian / Enrico Morano -- What’s in a Name? Papyrus Evidence for Christian Female Onomastic Practice in Egypt during the Period of Christianisation to the Early Byzantine Period / Alanna Nobbs -- What Did Augustine See? Augustine and Mani’s Picture Book / Johannes van Oort -- Pierre Gilles’ Constantinople: A 16th-Century Frenchman in the City of Suleyman the Magnificent / Ken Parry -- First Man and Third Messenger in Manichaean Mythology / Nils Arne Pedersen -- The Manichaean Contour Letters / Christiane Reck -- Following the Persians: Alexander the Great, His Mints at Tarsus and Babylon, and the Minting Practices of Persian and Greek Satraps / Kenneth A. Sheedy -- The Rediscovery of Sogdian / Nicholas Sims-Williams -- Traces of Christianity in the Land of the Tangut from the 8th to the 14th Century / Li Tang -- Did Christianity (or St. Thomas) Come to 1st-Century China? / Glen L. Thompson -- “Vous avez eu le courage de dire ce que pensent les meilleurs turquisants”: la correspondance Antoine Meillet / Willy Bang [Kaup] / Aloïs van Tongerloo† and Herman Seldeslachts --On the Manichaean Preacher Hulu Fashi of the Tang Dynasty / Wang Yuanyuan and Lin Wushu -- Christians in the Service of the Tang Emperor Suzong (756–762): A Curious Poem by Li Bo / David Wilmshurst -- Sogdian Christians in China, Turfan and Sogdiana / Yutaka Yoshida -- Notes on a Turkic Manichaean Benediction Hymn / Peter Zieme

 Local access dig. pdf. [Byzantium to China.pdf]

China and the Silk Roads (ca. 100 BCE to 1800 CE) : role and content of its historical access to the outside world /  by Angela Schottenhammer.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

General remarks on 'tribute', 'tribute trade', and China's 'tribute system' -- Han expansion and colonisation -- Tang expansion and power alliances -- Song China: economic giant and military dwarf? -- Mongol Yuan China and the Maritime Silk Roads: cutting deals? -- Ming foreign relations and Maritime engagement in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean -- Qing China's foreign relations, with focus on Japan and the Ryūkyūs -- Connecting China with the Pacific world?

"The book investigates China's relations to the outside world between ca. 100 BCE and 1800 CE. In contrast to most histories of the Silk Roads, the focus of this book clearly lies on the maritime Silk Road and on the period between Tang and high Qing, selecting aspects that have so far been neglected in research on the history of China's relations with the outside world. The author examines, for example, issue of 'imperialism' in imperial China, the specific role of fanbing (frontier tribal troops) during Song times, the interrelationship between maritime commerce, military expansion, and environmental factors during the Yuan, the question of whether or not early Ming China can be considered a (proto-)colonialist country, the role force and violence played during the Zheng He expeditions, and the significance the Asia-Pacific world possessed for late Ming and early Qing rulers"-- Provided by publisher.

Local access dig.pdf. [Schottenhammer-China Silk Roads.pdf]

Link to BC Librairies edition

Foreword / Lorenz Hurni -- Preface : what is a map? / Valerie Hansen -- Introduction / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty iconography : questions and hypotheses / Nicolas Zufferey -- Visualizing pilgrimage and mapping experience : Mount Wutai on the Silk Road / Natasha Heller -- The mapping of sacred space : images of Buddhist cosmographies in medieval China / Dorothy C. Wong -- Lost in translation : gridded plans and maps along the Silk Road / Jonathan M. Bloom -- Square horoscope diagrams in Middle Eastern astrology and Chinese cosmological diagrams : were these designs transmitted through the Silk Road? / Johannes Thomann -- The intrusion of East Asian imagery in thirteenth-century Armenia : political and cultural exchange along the Silk Road / Dickran Kouymjian -- Comparing al-Kāshgharī's map to his text : on the visual language, purpose, and transmission of Arabic-Islamic maps / Andreas Kaplony -- The Book of curiosities : a medieval Islamic view of the East / Yossef Rapoport -- Celestial maps and illustrations in Arabic-Islamic astronomy / Paul Kunitzsch -- Revisiting Catalan portolan charts : do they contain elements of Asian provenance? / Sonja Brentjes -- Conclusion / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Appendix. List of geographical nomenclature in al-Kāshgharī's text and map / Andreas Kaplony.

Covers the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. In retracing the steps of four major circuits across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, this work traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions.

Available online via Gleeson Library.
Local access dig.pdf. [Foret-Silk Road.pdf]

The Merchant's Tale -- The Soldier's Tale -- The Horseman's Tale -- The Princess's Tale -- The Monk's Tale -- The Courtesan's Tale -- The Nun's Tale -- The Widow's Tale -- The Official's Tale -- The Artist's Tale.

Reconfiguring the Silk Road : new research on East-West exchange in antiquity / edited by Victor H. Mair and Jane Hickman.

"The papers of a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, March 19, 2011."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: The Silk Roads before silk / Colin Renfrew -- Introduction: Reconceptualizing the Silk Roads / Victor H. Mair -- At the limits : long-distance trade in the time of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic kings / J.G. Manning -- The Silk Road in late antiquity / Peter Brown -- The Northern Cemetery : epigone or progenitor of Small River Cemetery No. 5? / Victor H. Mair -- More light on the Xinjiang textiles / Elizabeth Wayland Barber -- Seeds for the soul : ideology and diffusion of domesticated grains across Inner Asia / Michael D. Frachetti -- Horseback riding and Bronze Age pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes / David W. Anthony and Dorcas R. Brown -- Indo-European dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe / J.P. Mallory -- Concluding comments: Reconfiguring the Silk Road, or When does the Silk Road emerge and how does it qualitatively change over time? / Philip L. Kohl.

From the Bronze Age through the Middle Ages, a network of trade and migration routes brought people from across Eurasia into contact. Their commerce included political, social, and artistic ideas, as well as material goods such as metals and textiles. Reconfiguring the Silk Road offers new research on the earliest trade and cultural interactions along these routes, mapping the spread and influence of Silk Road economies and social structures over time. This volume features contributions by renowned scholars uncovering new discoveries related to populations that lived in the Tarim Basin, the advanced state of textile manufacturing in the region, and the diffusion of domesticated grains across Inner Asia. Other chapters include an analysis of the dispersal of languages across the Eurasian Steppe and a detailed examination of the domestication of the horse in the region. Contextualized with a foreword by Colin Renfrew and introduction by Victor Mair, Reconfiguring the Silk Road provides a new assessment of the intercultural evolution along the steppes and beyond. Contributors: David W. Anthony, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Dorcas R. Brown, Peter Brown, Michael D. Frachetti, Jane Hickman, Philip L. Kohl, Victor H. Mair, J.P. Mallory, Joseph G. Manning, Colin Renfrew.

Nigel Thomas: Râdhânites, Chinese Jews, and the Silk Road of the Steppes -- Wendy Abraham: The role of Confucian and Jewish educational values in the assimilation of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, supplemented by Western observer accounts, 1605-1985 -- Donald Daniel Leslie: The Old Testament and Biblical figures in Chinese sources -- Andrew H. Plaks: The Confucianization of the Chinese Jews: interpretations of the K’ai-feng Stelae inscriptions -- Kong Xianyi [孔憲易]: Delving into the Israelite religion of Kaifeng: the patriotic scholar Shi Jingxun 時經訓 and his Study of the origins of the Plucking the Sinews Sect of Henan (Henan tiaojinjiao yuanliukao 河南挑筋教源流考)

The Silk Road and cultural exchanges between East and West / by Rong Xinjiang ; translated by Sally K. Church, et al. ; edited by Sally K. Church and Imre Galambos.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book is translated into English from the original (Sichou zhilu yu dongxi wenhua jiaoliu by Rong Xinjiang)."

"This first and only English translation of Rong Xinjiang's The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West is a collection of 28 papers on the history of the Silk Road and the interactions among the peoples and cultures of East and Central Asia, including the so-called Western Regions in modern-day Xinjiang. Each paper is a masterly study that combines information obtained from historical records with excavated materials, such as manuscripts, inscriptions and artefacts. The new materials primarily come from north-western China, including sites in the regions of Dunhuang, Turfan, Kucha, and Khotan. The book contains a wealth of original insights into nearly every aspect of the complex history of this region"-- Provided by publisher.

Local access dig.pdf [Rong-Silk Road Cultural Exchanges.pdf]