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Along the Silk Road / Elizabeth Ten Grotenhuis, editor.

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Contains essays and illustrations which explore aspects of the history and contemporary status of the Silk Road, a trade network that connected Central Asia to East Asia and the Mediterranean from about the second century B.C.E. to the fourteenth century, written as part of the Silk Road Project, In...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Corporate Author: Silk Road Project, Inc
Other Authors: Ten Grotenhuis, Elizabeth
Other title:Silk Road.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, ℗♭2002.
Series:Asian art & culture (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Asia > Civilization.
Silk Road > Songs and music.
Civilization.
Asia.
Asia > Silk Road.
Songs.
Music.
Songs and music.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, Silk Road, ancient and contemporary / Elizabeth Ten Grotenhuis
  • Conversation with Yo-Yo Ma / Yo-Yo Ma and Theodore Levin
  • Melodic migration in northwest China / Bright Sheng
  • Fashioned from fiber / Elizabeth Barber
  • Astrology and a Japanese Star Mandala / Elizabeth Ten Grotenhuis
  • Sacred sites along the Silk Road / photographs by Kenro Izu, text by Debra Diamond
  • Traveling technologies / Merton C. Flemings
  • Iranian cinema : a brief take on a long history / Hamid Naficy.

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