Research Catalog

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

Juliano, Annette L.

Publication

New York : Harry N. Abrams with The Asia Society, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lerner, Judith A.
• Alram, Michael.
• Asia Society. Museum.
• Norton Museum of Art.

Description

352 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans; 31 cm.

Summary

Stunning works in precious metals, glass, and stone--many recently excavated and virtually unknown outside China--shed new light on a pivotal epoch in Chinese history. From the 4th through 7th century, monks and merchants freely traveled along the fabled Silk Road, linking China with the west, propagating Buddhism, and purveying exotic goods and artifacts that fundamentally transformed Chinese culture and society. This sumptuous volume, the first to explore the magnificent treasures and sites of China's northwest section of the Silk Road, accompanies an exhibition at the Asia Society in New York. The text by an international team of scholars illuminates the importance of the region in this period of fertile cross-cultural exchanges between Eastern and Western Asia.

Alternative Title

Silk Road treasures from Northwest China Gansu and Ningxia, 4th-7th century

Subject

• Buddhist art > China, Northwest > Exhibitions
• China, Northwest > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• Silk Road > Antiquities > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Asia Society Museum, New York, Oct. 13, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002, and at the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Feb. 9-Apr. 21, 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-348) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Vishaka N. Desai -- Statement / Zhang Wenbin -- Statement / Maurice R. Greenberg and Nicholas Platt -- Statement / Douglas A. Warner and William B. Harrison -- Monks, merchants, and nomads in Northwest China, fourth-seventh century / Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner -- The Silk Road in Gansu and Ningxia / Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner -- The unbroken thread: nomads in China / Annette L. Juliano -- Encounters with nomads / Albert E. Dien -- Buddhist art in Northwest China / Annette L. Juliano -- Gandhara in Gansu / Chen Bingying -- The merchant empire of the Sogdians / Judith A. Lerner -- The Sogdians in their homeland / Boris I. Marshak -- Sogdians in Northwest China / Luo Feng -- Coins and the Silk Road / Michael Alram -- Cosmopolitanism and the Tang / Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner.

ISBN

• 0810934787
• 0878480897 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001022132

OCLC

• 45879645
• SCSB-10466193

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library