num_pages: 182
description: During the early decades of this century a handful of foreign explorers raced to remove wall-paintings, sculptures, manuscripts and other treasures from the lost cities of the Silk Road, the great trans-Asian highway that had once linked imperial China and distant Rome. The German archaeologist, Albert von Le Coq - one of the most successful of these explorers - discovered the huge, ninth-century Buddhist murals from the cliff-face monastery at Bezeklik. Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan, first published in 1928, is von Le Coq's account of the adventures and misadventures that beset him during his excavations along the Silk Road. This edition includes an introduction by Peter Hopkirk, author of Foreign Devils on the Silk Road and Trespassers on the Roof of the World.Oxford in Asia Paperbacks present a wide range of books on Southeast Asia and China. Many of these were widely acclaimed when first published, some others were overlooked because of circumstances of their first publication and have long been unavailable. Other books in the series are Oxford in Asia Paperbacks originals. Titles are selected for their quality of writing, rather than by theme or subject matter, and together they form a delightful and informative library for readers interested in the region past and present.
language: English
title: Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan
titlecomplete: Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)
genres: History, China
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Oxford University Press