Full title: Monks and merchants : Silk Road treasures from Northwest China Gansu and Ningxia 4th-7th century / Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner ; with essays by Michael Alram ... [et al.].

Author/creator: Alram, Michael, Lerner, Judith A, Asia Society, Norton Museum of Art, Asia Society. Museum, Juliano, Annette L.

Date: 2001..

Call Numbers: NQ951.4/1

Record Identifier: 74VvQgwMLKll

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: 352 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 31 cm., Foreword / Vishakha N. Desai -- Statement / Zhang Wenbin -- Statement / Maurice R. Greenberg and Nicholas Platt -- Statement / Douglas A. Warner and William B. Harrison -- Preface / Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner -- Introduction: Monks, Merchants, and Nomads in Northwest China, Fourth-Seventh Century / Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner -- Pt. I. Setting the Stage -- 1. The Silk Road in Gansu and Ningxia / Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner -- 2. The Unbroken Thread: Nomads in China / Annette L. Juliano -- 3. Encounters with Nomads / Albert E. Dien -- Pt. II. Buddhist Monks: Transmission and Translation -- 4. Buddhist Art in Northwest China / Annette L. Juliano -- 5. Gandhara in Gansu / Chen Bingying -- Pt. III. Foreign Merchants: From Colonists to Chinese Officials -- 6. The Merchant Empire of the Sogdians / Judith A. Lerner -- 7. The Sogdians in Their Homeland / Boris I. Marshak -- 8. Sogdians in Northwest China / Luo Feng., 9. Coins and the Silk Road / Michael Alram -- Pt. IV. Conclusion -- 10. Cosmopolitanism and the Tang / Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner.

Publishers: New York, N.Y. : Harry N. Abrams with the Asia Society, 2001.

Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at The Asia Society Museum, New York, Oct. 13, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002 and at Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Feb. 9-Apr. 21, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-348) and index.

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DDC: 951.4, 709.514

MMS ID: 991014564229702626