The silk roads: highways of culture and commerce / 
 Highways of culture and commerce 
edited by Vadime Elisseeff 
 - New York:  Paris:  Berghahn Books;  UNESCO Pub.,  2000. 
 - xv, 332 p.:  ill.;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>1. Perspectives on Buddhism in Dunhuang during the Tang and Five Dynasties Period /Henrik H. Sorensen<br/>2. The Expansion of Buddhism into Southeast Asia (Mainly before A.D. 1000) /J. G. de Casparis<br/>3. The Travels of Marco Polo in the Land of Buddhism /Ananda Abeydeera<br/>4. Indus-Gulf Relations: A Reassessment in the Light of New Evidence /Nilofer Shaikh<br/>5. The Southern Silk Road: Archaeological Evidence of Early Trade between India and Southeast Asia /Ian C. Glover<br/>6. An Inscription in Memory of Sayyid Bin Abu Ali: A Study of Relations between China and Oman from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Century /Liu Yingsheng<br/>7. The Mongol Empire in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: East-West Relations /Bira Shagdar<br/>8. A Brunei Sultan of the Early Fourteenth Century: A Study of an Arabic Gravestone /Chen Da-sheng<br/>9. Caravanserais along the Grand Trunk Road in Pakistan: A Central Asian Legacy /Saifiir Rahman Dar<br/>10. Maritime Trade from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century: Evidence from the Underwater Archaeological Sites in the Gulf of Siam /Sayan Prishanchit<br/>11. The Ban on the Export of Certain Articles from the Levant to the Mediterranean Ports during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries /Zeki Arikan<br/>12. The Impact of the Macao-Manila Silk Trade from the Beginnings to 1640 /Rut D'Avila Lourido<br/>13. Inner Asian Muslim Merchants at the Closure of the Silk Routes in the Seventeenth Century /Isenbike Togan<br/>14. The Exchange of Musical Influences between Korea and Central Asia in Ancient Times /Song Bang-Song<br/>15. The Trade Routes and the Diffusion of Artistic Traditions in South and Southeast Asia /Nandana Chutiwongs<br/>16. The Development of China's Navigation Technology and of the Maritime Silk Route /Sun Guangqi<br/>17. Mongol Nomadic Pastoralism: A Tradition between Nature and History /Jacques Legrand<br/>18. The Spiritual Identity of the Silk Roads: A Historical Overview of Buddhism and Islam /Amir H. Zekrgoo 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1571812210 1571812229 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Asia--Civilization<br/>Asia--Commerce--History<br/>Silk Road--History
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>950  / ELI/S