Ancient silk trade routes : selected works from Symposium on Cross Cultural Exchanges and Their Legacies in Asia / Dashu Qin, Jian Yuan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Qin, Dashu.

Yuan, Jian

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities.

Silk Road--Antiquities--Congresses.

Silk Road.

Asia, Central--Antiquities--Congresses.

Asia, Central.

Central Asia.

Asia--Silk Road.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2014.

Summary:

As key nodes that connected ancient silk routes traversing China, Japan and India, trading hubs, towns and cities in Java and Sumatra and other places in Asia were key destination points for merchants, monks and other itinerants plying these routes. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Textiles 19

Chapter 1 Large Western Floral Designs - A Study on Western Styled Silk Textiles in the Palace Museum, Beijing / Zhao Feng Feng, Zhao 21

Chapter 2 Lou-Ian Textiles in the Stein Collection at the National Museum, New Delhi / Nirmala Sharma Sharma, Nirmala 39

Chapter 3 Tracing Ancient Networks: Linguistics, Hand-woven cloths and Looms in Eastern Indonesia / Geneviève Duggan Duggan, Geneviève 53

Part 2 Ceramics 85

Chapter 4 Archaeological Investigations of Chinese Ceramics Excavated from Kenya / Qin Dashu Dashu, Qin 87

Chapter 5 The China-Borneo Ceramics Trade Around the 13th Century: The Story of the Two Wrecks / Michael Flecker Flecker, Michael 111

Chapter 6 Mutual Exchange: Chinese and East African Trade in the Late First/Early Second Millenium BCE / Kiriama Herman Herman, Kiriama 137

Chapter 7 Aceh and the Maritime Silk Route: Aceh and Northern Sumatra, Key Locations on the Ancient Maritime Silk Route / Edwards Mckinnon Mckinnon, Edwards 149

Chapter 8 Ceramics along the Spice Trade Route in the Indonesian Archipelago in the 16th-19th Centuries / Naniek Harkantiningsih Wibisono Wibisono, Naniek Harkantiningsih 169

Part 3 Arts and Artefacts 189

Chapter 9 The Silverwares from Shinan Wreck and Qingyuan Port / Qi Dongfang Dongfang, Qi 191

Chapter 10 The Fairy Likes High Building: An Analogy Analysis Between the Newly-Excavated Pottery Building Decorated with 'Xianglun' in Xiangyang city and the Shrine of Buddha (Futu Ci) of China / Luo Shiping Shiping, Luo 207

Part 4 Buddhism 221

Chapter 11 Comparing the Cross-Cultural Exchanges of Esoteric Buddhism through Overland and Maritime Silk Roads / Tanakei Kimiaki Kimiaki, Tanakei 223

Chapter 12 Ten Stages of Enlightenment (Dasabhumi) in the Journey of Sudhana in Indonesian and Chinese Art / Shashibala 237

Chapter 13 Exploring the Link between Borobudur Temple and Avatamsaka Sutra / Hsien Du Du, Hsien 269

Chapter 14 Studies on the Chinese Classics on Java Buddhism / Xuan Fang Fang, Xuan 295.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789814619097

9814619094

OCLC:

889184223

Publisher Number:

99962677251