Foreign devils on the Silk Road
Subtitle: the search for the lost cities and treasures of Chinese Central Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- Antiquities.; Silk Road.
Description: "In the 1950's one of the most commonly-asked questions in America was, Who Lost China? Well, comfortable as it might have been to pin the blame upon 'fellow travelers' or suchlike, the real answer may involve such names as Sven Hedin, Aurel Stein, von Le Coq, and Langdon Warner. And who, pray, were they? Merely individuals who in the name of science plundered China as the generals and merchants never dreamed of doing. Gold and silk could be replaced; a nation's history could not. Peter Hopkirk has told a sad tale with remarkable compassion." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review).
Notes: Bibliography: p. [243]-245.
Includes index.