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Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road

Book by Sally Hovey Wriggins; Westview Press, 1996

Subjects:

Priests, Buddhist--China--Biography

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Sally Hovey Wriggins retells the story of Xuanzang, the 7th century Chinese monk who completed an epic 16-year journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India.
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Uzbekistan: Transition to Authoritarianism on the Silk Road

Book by Neil J. Melvin; Harwood Academic, 2000

Subjects:

Uzbekistan--Economic Conditions--1991-, Uzbekistan--History, Uzbekistan--History--1991-, Uzbekistan--Politics And Government--1991-

Collections: History, Entire Library

Neil J. Melvin is a Senior Lecturer in Russian and Central Asian Politics in the Institute for Political and International Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.
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Oasis Identities: Uyghur Nationalism along China's Silk Road

Book by Justin Jon Rudelson; Columbia University Press, 1997

Subjects:

Uighur (Turkic People)--History, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Ethnic Relations

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the China Bag (Chinese Garden), was located...branch of the Silk Road, but also because...of the ancient Silk Road (1985). eralization...sentiments toward the Chinese government among...called the Iron Silk Road by Chinese officials, was...
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Britain and Chinese Central Asia: The Road to Lhasa, 1767 to 1905

Book by Alastair Lamb; Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960

Subjects:

Great Britain--Foreign Relations--China--Tibet, Tibet (China)--Foreign Relations--Great Britain

Collections: History, Entire Library

...on the course of events in Chinese territory along the Indian border...across the Himalayas by which silk from China reached India...NEPAL: 1792 TO 1816 AFTER THE CHINESE INTERVENTION in the Himalayas...to be traversed by the main road between Calcutta and Lhasa...
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The Spiral Road: Change in a Chinese Village through the Eyes of a Communist Party Leader

Book by Shu-Min Huang; Westview Press, 1989

Subjects:

Communism--China--Fujian Sheng--Case Studies, Fujian Sheng (China)--Rural Conditions--Case Studies, Villages--China--Lin Village (Fujian Sheng)--Case Studies

Collections: Entire Library

The Spiral Road Change in a Chinese Village Through the Eyes...Communist Party Leader The Spiral Road Change in a Chinese Village Through the Eyes...Huang, Shu-min The spiral road: change in a Chinese village through the eyes of...

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Teaching the Silk Road: A Journey of Pedagogical Discovery

Journal article by A.J. Andrea, William Mierse; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Vol. 27, 2002

Subjects:

History--Study and teaching, Silk Road--Study and teaching

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...teaching the Silk Road, we would focus...far western Chinese Turkistan...ranging from Chinese poems describing...accounts of such Silk Road travelers as...Devils on the Silk Road: The Search...Treasures of Chinese Central Asia...
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Life along the Silk Road

Journal article by Michael R. Drompp; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, 2002

Subjects:

Life Along the Silk Road (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...book may indeed offer the reader images of life along the Silk Road, it cannot be considered an accurate scholarly resource...Beshbalik," as one would expect) for the city known in Chinese sources as Beiting (p. xi). She writes often of a "Rokhshan...
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The New Silk Road: Mediators and Tourism Development in Central Asia

Journal article by Cynthia Werner; Ethnology, Vol. 42, 2003

Collections: Entire Library

...suggested a number of possible solutions, including a Silk Road visa, a group visa for tourist groups, and a visa waiver...the government fees and bureaucracy associated with the Chinese-Kyrgyz border crossing at the spectacular Torugart Pass...
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Beyond the Silk Road: Staging a Queer Asian America in Chay Yew's Porcelain

Journal article by Heath A. Diehl; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 37, 2004

Subjects:

Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Porcelain (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Yew, Chay--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Beyond the Silk Road: Staging a Queer Asian America...INTRODUCTION The drama of Chinese American playwright Chay...PBS documentary like The Silk Road?" (qtd. In Drukman 58-60...space. In Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United...
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A New Silk Road: The Future of US-Kazakh Relations

Journal article by David Thaisrivongs; Harvard International Review, Vol. 26, 2004

Subjects:

Kazakhstan--Economic aspects, Kazakhstani foreign relations--Evaluation, United States foreign relations

Collections: Entire Library

...support to Kazakhstan. In 1999, the United States passed the Silk Road Strategy Act, which emphasized the importance of political...promise in the Central Asian region irrelevant. Heightened Chinese and Russian interest in countries like Kazakhstan has...

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The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith: Susan Whitfield, Head of the International Dunhuang Project, Introduces a New Exhibition of Treasures of Ancient Central Asia, Opening at the British Library

Magazine article by Susan Whitfield; History Today, Vol. 54, May 2004

Subjects:

Ancient history, History, Ancient, Silk Road--Exhibitions, Silk Road--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of the Eastern Silk Road--from Samarkand...through the lens of Chinese imperial historians...cities of the Silk Road. A century later...established by the Chinese on the edge of...to control the Silk Road kingdoms. The Chinese were forced to...
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New Masters from the Silk Road : The Transcultural Reenchantment of Music

Magazine article by Tom Pniewski; World and I, Vol. 17, April 2002

Subjects:

Music--Asia, Popular culture, Silk Road

Collections: Entire Library

...His commission, Silk Road Reverie, combines...of traditional Chinese instruments...known native Chinese composers, will...goals of the Silk Road Project and its...plus traditional Chinese instruments. The Silk Road Project concerts...
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Hogging the Silk Road

Magazine article by Reed Resnikoff, Hans Kemp; World and I, Vol. 13, August 1998

Subjects:

China--Description and travel, Motorcycle riding, Motorcycles--Touring, Silk Road--Description and travel

Collections: Entire Library

...legendary explorer Marco Polo. Ali the bikers luckily learned Silk Road Rule No. 1 early on: Never walk anywhere near the rear...and expansive bank accounts. There were six Hong Kong Chinese, one Burmese, two Yanks, two Brits, an Aussie, a Canuck...
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Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project

Magazine article by Susan Osmond; World and I, Vol. 17, April 2002

Subjects:

Aga Khan Foundation--Donations, Composers--Behavior, Indigenous peoples, Levin, Theodore--Behavior, Ma, Yo Yo--Behavior, Music, Music festivals--Analysis, Musicians--Behavior, Silk Road

Collections: Entire Library

...Qizil in what is now the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang...Sacred Sites Along the Silk Road--a photography exhibition...artistic adviser to the Silk Road Project, is composing...pipa, and sheng (two Chinese instruments) to be premiered...
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The Road Goes Ever on ... This Month, the British Library Opens an Exhibition of Priceless and Rare Treasures from the Silk Road Which Is Based Primarily on the Collection of Archaeologist Aurel Stein, Here, Its Curator, Susan Whitfield, Provides a Profile of Stein and Previews Some of the Artefacts on Display

Magazine article by Susan Whitfield; Geographical, Vol. 76, May 2004

Subjects:

Archaeologists--Travel, Silk Road--Exhibitions, Stein, Aurel, Sir--Travel, United Kingdom. British Library--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...explored the length of the Silk Road from the shores of the...Iran to 2,000-year-old Chinese military fortifications...the focus of his first Silk Road expedition in 1900. "In scattered notices of Chinese records there was much...

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Folklife Focus on Silk Road; Smithsonian Festival a Tribute to Cultures along the Fabled Route

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 3, 2002

Subjects:

Silk Road

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...will include Sufi dancers, Chinese mask dancers and instrumentalists...demonstrate the living arts of silk making and carpet weaving...Lawrence Small said was a road traveled by "traders who...will be on "connecting the Silk Road to the present," he noted...
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Loulan Vanished in Sand; Silk Road Oasis Town Flourished for Eight Centuries

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 14, 2005

Subjects:

China, Han, Hedin, Sven

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...town on the Silk Road connecting...blowing sand. Chinese silk has been...The Silk Road" is a term...19th century. Silk must have...produced by the Chinese of the Shang...traffic on the Silk Road grew, it became...imperative for the Chinese to protect...
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THE SILK ROAD; Colorful Journey

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 6, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...fascinate on the Silk Road, just as travel...Central Asian than Chinese. Mosques and Chinese...a seven-person Chinese-American Silk Road team, the display...to traditional Chinese painting traditions...their imaginary Silk Road "journey," visitors...
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Cheechakos, Planet Earth, the Silk Road

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 28, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...far-flung trails in the world. Frances Wood, author of the comprehensive and lavishly illustrated "The Silk Road," is head of the Chinese section at Londons British Library and brings other impressive credentials to the job. (Jacket material says...
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NAFTA Highway or New Silk Road?

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 24, 2006

Subjects:

Freeways, Highways, International trade

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...NAFTA Highway or New Silk Road? Byline: William...a reality." The Chinese firm Hutchison Whampoa...under the barrage of Chinese goods, Mexican industry...be called a new Silk Road rather than a NAFTA...can be undercut by Chinese labor at 50 cents...

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Xinjiang

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...populated areas cotton and silk (both locally spun and...region is linked to the Chinese rail network by line from...ancient roads: the north road, which skirts the southern...rail line, and the south road, encircling the Tarim...It first passed under Chinese rule in the 1st cent...
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China

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...northwest. Although a British crown colony until its return to Chinese control in 1997, Hong Kong has long been a major maritime...by railroads and highways, and there are now major rail and road links with the interior. There are railroads to North Korea...
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Fujian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...tea are grown in the uplands, and fruit, silk, and jute are produced in the lowlands...flows southeast, emptying below Fuzhou. Chinese painters have often depicted its gorges...in internal communications by rail and road and new emphasis on agricultural production...
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India

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of cotton, woolen, and silk textiles, jute, and leather...gauge. Transportation by road is increasing, with the...this time that the noted Chinese pilgrim Hsuan-tsang...difficulties with Pakistan. The Chinese controversy climaxed on Oct. 20, 1962, when the Chinese launched a massive offensive...
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Sichuan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...with Shaanxi and Yunnan provs., and the road network has been improved and expanded...forested, and tung oil is a major export. Silk, grown on both mulberry and oak trees...via the Myanmar-Yunnan trade route. The Chinese Communists controlled much of N Sichuan...

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