Exploring the labor, tools, materials, and rituals behind these various objects, Whitfield infuses her narrative with delightful details as the objects journey through time, space, and meaning. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas is a lively and unique approach to understanding the Silk Road and the cultural, economic, and technical changes of the late antiquity and medieval periods.

AUREL STEIN ON THE SILK ROAD Hie Silk Road was an extensive network of mutes Unking the great cities of Eurasia, stretching from the shores or the Mediterranean to the Chinese capital, Chang'an. For over thousand years, it was not merely a trade route hui a conduit ...

In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Linking Europe, India, and the Far East, the route passed through many countries and many settlements, from the splendid city of Samarkand to tiny desert hamlets. Susan Whitfield creates a rich and varied portrait of life along the greatest trade route in history in a vivid, lively, and learned account that spans the eighth through the tenth centuries. Recoun

Co-authored with Roderick Whitfield (Author), Susan Whitfield (Author), Neville Agnew (Author), Lois Conner(Photographer), Wu Jian (Photographer)

Spanish Edition

This book explores the role of exchanges between Europe and China in the development of pre-modern silk technology, particularly focusing on silk production in the Italian kingdom of Piedmont.

(La Societa moderna e contemporanea) Italian Edition

The aim of this book is to provide a scientific background for an important debate

To the English translation of the text, together with facsimile pages reproduced in colour from the original manuscript, are added essays meant to situate it in its historical, economic and technological contexts.

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Les noms du royaume de Khotan, les noms d’ère et la lignée royale de la fin des Tang au début des Song, Contributions aux études de Touen-houang III, ed. M. Soymié, Paris, 1984, 23-46+ pls. I-IV.

Xu Zheng. Innovative Design of Silk Art During the Republic of China (1912-1949) and Its Instruction on Modern Silk Design,2012 International Academic Conference of Art Engineering and Creative Industry(IACAE 2012), 2012:2

Identification of yellow dyes in two wall coverings from the Palace Museum: Evidence for reconstitution of artifacts. Dyes and Pigments, 2018, 153:137-143(Jian Liu, Lifang Ji, Lei Chen, Kemei Pei, Peng Zhao, Yang Zhou, Feng Zhao.)

Silk in Indonesia: Its History, Ancient and Current Silk Textiles Prepared for the symposium “Silks from the Silk Road: Origin, Transmission and Exchange”, held on October 2015 by the China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, China. Since early times, silk has been a much favorite textile all around the world, this is also the case in Indonesia. Through scrutinizing ancient documents, the paper will trace back the origins of silk in the archipelago, its history and use in society. The paper will present ancient textiles found in Indonesia and discu

Book Review:Where the Roads Met: East and West in the Silk Production Processes (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century) Publication Date: 1997 Publication Name: Isis

East Asia: Master Forgers or Innocent Imitators? There has been a long tradition of imitation in the calligraphic and painting traditions in East Asia but, it is arguable, the history of forgeries is just as long. And sometimes it seems that the same masters who created some of the finest works of art, were also teasing their audiences – and the market – by creating forgeries. Two thousand years ago a cache of 'ancient manuscripts' found in the wall of Confucius's family home gave rise to an acrimonious debate among scholars over their genuinen

Unpacking the Chinese Library. In Bibliotheca: Humanist Practice in Digital Times

The interactive map of world culture is based on the map of world loom developed during the exhibition " A World of Looms: Weaving Technology and Textile Arts in China and Beyond" hosted by the China National Silk Museum. The template of academic map of traditional loom is established by applying "Internet +" technology.