The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West

✍ Scribed by Xinjiang Rong, Imre Galambos (editor)

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 721
• Series: East and West: Culture, Diplomacy and Interactions; 14
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Editor’s Acknowledgements
Figures, Maps and Tables
Translators
Part 1 The Silk Road
Chapter 1 The Silk Road and Ancient Xinjiang
Chapter 2 The Anxi Protectorate and the Silk Road in the Tang Period, with a Focus on the Documents Excavated at Turfan
Chapter 3 Beiting on the Silk Road (7th–10th Centuries)
Chapter 4 The City of Tongwan in the History of Sino-Western Communications in the Medieval Period
Chapter 5 Gaochang in the Second Half of the 5th Century and Its Relations with the Rouran Qaghanate and the Kingdoms of the Western Regions
Part 2 Cultural Exchange and Interaction
Chapter 6 Persian and Chinese: The Integration of Two Cultures in the Tang Dynasty
Chapter 7 New Evidence on the History of Contacts between the Tang Dynasty and the Abbasid Caliphate: Yang Liangyao’s Embassy
Chapter 8 Cultural Contacts between China and India from the Late Tang to the Early Song in Light of the Dunhuang Manuscripts
Chapter 9 Historical Evidence for Cultural Exchanges between the Tang and Silla: The Inscription for the Meditation Cloister at the Dayun Monastery in Haizhou
Chapter 10 Diplomatic Relations in East Asia in the 8th Century and Japanese Embassies to Tang China
Chapter 11 The Official Reception of Japanese Envoys during the Tang Dynasty as Seen from the Epitaph of I no Manari
Part 3 The Westward Spread of Chinese Culture
Chapter 12 The Network of Chinese Buddhist Monasteries in the Western Regions under Tang Control
Chapter 13 The Circulation of Chinese Texts in the Region of Kucha in the Tang Dynasty: The German Turfan Collection
Chapter 14 The Transmission of Chan Buddhism to the Western Regions in the Tang Dynasty
Chapter 15 The “Lanting xu” in the Western Regions
Chapter 16 The Transmission of Wang Xizhi’s “Shang xiang Huang Qi tie” in the Western Regions
Chapter 17 Reception and Rejection: The Transmission of Chinese Texts into the Western Regions during the Tang Dynasty
Part 4 Contributions to China of Foreign Material Culture
Chapter 18 Sogdian Merchants and Sogdian Culture on the Silk Road
Chapter 19 Currency on the Silk Road and the Sogdian Merchants
Chapter 20 The Life of a Sogdian Leader on the Silk Road – A Rough Summary of the Images on Shi Jun’s Sarcophagus
Chapter 21 Khotanese Felt and Sogdian Silver: Foreign Gifts to Buddhist Monasteries in 9th and 10th Century Dunhuang
Chapter 22 The Exchange of Silk Textiles between Dunhuang and Khotan during the 10th Century
Part 5 The Transmission of the Three Foreign Religions
Chapter 23 The Colophon of the Manuscript of the Golden Light Sutra Excavated in Turfan and the Transmission of Zoroastrianism to Gaochang
Chapter 24 Buddhist Images or Zoroastrian Deities? Religious Syncretism on the Silk Road as Seen from Khotan
Chapter 25 Further Discussion of the Mixing of Religions on the Silk Road: A New View of the Buddhist Murals in Khotan
Chapter 26 Jingjiao Christians as Heretics in the Eyes of Buddhists and Daoists of the Tang Dynasty
Chapter 27 The Authenticity of Some Jingjiao Texts from Dunhuang
Chapter 28 The Western Regions: The Last Paradise of Manichaeism
Epilogue
Appendix Converting Chinese Dates into Western Dates
Bibliography
Index