Editors' Preface Chapter 1. China Looks West Chapter 2. Rome Looks East Chapter 3. The Kushan Empire and Buddhism Chapter 4. A Golden Age Emerges Chapter 5. Transforming the Eurasian Silk Market Chapter 6. The Mongols and the Twilight of the Silk Road Chronology Notes Further Reading Websites Acknowledgements Index
Xinru Liu teaches in the Department of History at The College of New Jersey and was formerly Senior Researcher at the Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
"A welcome addition to the New Oxford World History series...Any
general reader interested in silk or textiles will enjoy this book,
but so too will one who is captivated by any other aspect of the
Silk Road, for it provides a quick but fascinating historical
narrative. As a textbook for a world history class, its appeal lies
not only in the romance of the Silk Road but also in its use of
material culture to write world history by connecting economic
and
political activities with the religious values of various
traditions."--Journal of Asian Studies
"A carefully constructed narrative and analysis...This is an
excellent text that will be useful for orientating students and
introducing them to the sources and interpretive problems of
ancient and medieval Central Asian history."--World History
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