Beyond the silk and book roads : : rethinking networks of exchange and material culture / / edited by Michelle C. Wang, Ryan Richard Overbey.

"Silk Road studies has often treated material artifacts and manuscripts separately. This interdisciplinary volume expands the scope of transcultural transmission, questions what constituted a "book," and explores networks of circulation shared by material artifacts and manuscripts. Fe...

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Superior document:Studies on East Asian religions ; volume 11
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies on East Asian religions ; volume 11.
Physical Description:1 online resource (434 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Textual Production and Circulation
  • Chinese Bamboo Slips Unearthed Abroad and the Book Road in East Asia: On the Bamboo Slips of the Analects / Ge Jiyong
  • Vowing the Buddhist Canon along the Silk Road(s): A Study of Colophons to Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Japan / George A. Keyworth
  • The Transmission of Medieval Chinese Paintings to Japan: Paintings on the 'Book Road' and Their Reception / Ding Li
  • A Gandhāran among the Türks: Buddhist Texts and Travels in the Biographies of *Dhyānagupta (528-605) / Ryan Richard Overbey
  • The Circulation of Texts between Dunhuang and Other Regions as Viewed from the Dunhuang Manuscripts / Hao Chunwen and Wu Shaowei
  • Part 2. Centers and Peripheries
  • The Khotanese and Tibetan Transmission of the Narrative of the Destruction of the Dharma in the Kingdom of KauśāmbīII: Discussion / Liu Yi
  • An Epistolary Buddhist Network between Lhasa and Beijing in the 1740s / Lan Wu
  • Images of Silk along the Silk Roads: Dunhuang Mural Paintings and Tang Funerary Figurines / Sha Wutian
  • Birds of a Feather: Mahāmāyūrībetween Khotan and Dunhuang / Michelle C. Wang
  • White Silk, Gold Thread, Frosted Temples, and Fat Faces: The Radiating Branches of Zhuzhici, ca. 1700-1900 / Stephen Roddy.