TY - BOOK TI - The silk roads: highways of culture and commerce SN - 1571812210 U1 - 950 PY - 2000/// CY - New York, Paris PB - Berghahn Books, UNESCO Pub. KW - Asia KW - Civilization KW - Commerce KW - History KW - Silk Road N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 1. Perspectives on Buddhism in Dunhuang during the Tang and Five Dynasties Period /Henrik H. Sorensen 2. The Expansion of Buddhism into Southeast Asia (Mainly before A.D. 1000) /J. G. de Casparis 3. The Travels of Marco Polo in the Land of Buddhism /Ananda Abeydeera 4. Indus-Gulf Relations: A Reassessment in the Light of New Evidence /Nilofer Shaikh 5. The Southern Silk Road: Archaeological Evidence of Early Trade between India and Southeast Asia /Ian C. Glover 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 7. The Mongol Empire in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: East-West Relations /Bira Shagdar 8. A Brunei Sultan of the Early Fourteenth Century: A Study of an Arabic Gravestone /Chen Da-sheng 9. Caravanserais along the Grand Trunk Road in Pakistan: A Central Asian Legacy /Saifiir Rahman Dar 10. Maritime Trade from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century: Evidence from the Underwater Archaeological Sites in the Gulf of Siam /Sayan Prishanchit 11. The Ban on the Export of Certain Articles from the Levant to the Mediterranean Ports during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries /Zeki Arikan 12. The Impact of the Macao-Manila Silk Trade from the Beginnings to 1640 /Rut D'Avila Lourido 13. Inner Asian Muslim Merchants at the Closure of the Silk Routes in the Seventeenth Century /Isenbike Togan 14. The Exchange of Musical Influences between Korea and Central Asia in Ancient Times /Song Bang-Song 15. The Trade Routes and the Diffusion of Artistic Traditions in South and Southeast Asia /Nandana Chutiwongs 16. The Development of China's Navigation Technology and of the Maritime Silk Route /Sun Guangqi 17. Mongol Nomadic Pastoralism: A Tradition between Nature and History /Jacques Legrand 18. The Spiritual Identity of the Silk Roads: A Historical Overview of Buddhism and Islam /Amir H. Zekrgoo ER -