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The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road
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9789004171657
Title
The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road / edited by Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008
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xxxi, 243, [2] p., [31] p. of plates, 1 folded leaf ; ill. ; 25 cm.
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Brill's Inner Asian library 21
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Based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich (Collegium Helveticum) in May 2004.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Preface: What is a map? / Valerie Hansen. -- Introduction / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony. -- Traces of the Silk Road in Han-dynasty iconography: questions and hypotheses / Nicolas Zufferey. -- Visualizing pilgrimage and mapping experience: Mount Wutai on the Silk Road / Natasha Heller. -- The mapping of sacred space: images of Buddhist cosmographies in medieval China / Dorothy C. Wong. -- Lost in translation: gridded plans and maps along the Silk Road / Jonathan M. Bloom. -- Square horoscope diagrams in Middle Eastern astrology and Chinese cosmological diagrams: were these designs transmitted through the Silk Road? / Johannes Thomman. -- The intrusion of East Asian imagery in thirteenth-century Armenia: political and cultural exchange along the Silk Road / Dickran Kouymjian. -- Comparing al-Kāshgharī's map to his text: on the visual language, purpose, and transmission of Arabic-Islamic maps / Andreas Kaplony. -- The Book of curiosities: a medieval Islamic view of the East / Yossef Rapoport. -- Celestial maps and illustrations in Arabic-Islamic astronomy / Paul Kunitzsch. -- Revisiting Catalan portolan charts: do they contain elements of Asian provenance? / Sonja Brentjes. -- Conclusion / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony. -- Appendix: List of geographical nomenclature in al-Kāshgharī's text and map.
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Trade routes -- Asia -- History
Asia -- Historical geography
Silk Road -- History
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Forêt, Philippe 1957-
Kaplony, Andreas
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