Author: JULIANO, ANNETTE L. AND LERNER, JUDITH A.; WITH ESSAYS BY ALRAM, MICHAEL; BINGYING, CHEN; DIEN, ALBERT E.; FENG, LUO AND MARSHAK, BORIS I.
Title: Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China
Description: Harry N. Abrams Inc. with The Asia Society. 2001. (ISBN: 0878480897). Soft cover. Book, English text; Paperback.; 22.7 x 30.1 cm; 2.056 Kg; 352 pages with colour and black and white illustrations throughout; Catalogue from exhibition organised by the Asia Socity Center and held at Asia Society Museum, New York, October 13, 2001-January 6, 2002 and Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida, February 9-April 21, 2002.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior. Interior as new.; The Northwest region of China comprising the modern provinces of Gansu and Ningxia formed a natural geographical corridor to China's heartland for foreign traders and missionaries traveling the Silk Road from regions as far west as India, Rome, and Byzantium. Monks and Merchants is the first book to focus on this region and the crucial role it played in the transformation of Chinese civilization from the fourth through the seventh century. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: 0878480897 monks,china,antiquities,silk road,gansu,ningxia Collections and exhibitions


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