Significance of silk roads in the history of human civilizations
By: edited by Umesao Tadao, Sugimura Toh
Series: Senri ethnological studies -- no. 32
Publisher: National Museum of Ethnology
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Osaka
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Trade routes; Congresses; Acculturation; Civilization
Notes: Consists primarily of papers originally presented at an international seminar held at the National Museum of Ethnology in October 24-26 of 1988.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Silk Roads / Vadime Elisseeff; title: Cultural Exchange on the Ancient Steppe Route / Kato Kyuzo; title: Significance of Silk Road to Human Civilization / Ahmad Hasan Dani; title: Significance of Slik Roads Today / Shirin Akiner; title: Silk Road: A Culture of Imported Goods / Higuchi Takayasu; title: Behind the Prosperity of Silk Road / Masuda Seiichi; title: Music on Silk Roads / Fujii Tomoaki; title: Development of Japanese Research on Silk Road / Nagasawa Kazutoshi; title: From Chang An to Rome / Sugiyama Jiro; title: Physical Ornamentation in Tang Dynasty Zoomorphic Design / Hayashi Ryoichi; title: Buddhist Triad Icon in Gandhara / Higashiyama Kengo; title: Tocharian People / Lin Mei-cun; title: Small Buddhist Images from Siberia's Far East / Kato Kyuzo; title: Interaction of an Unknown Hill People in Northwestern Thailand with the Ancient Trade Along Silk Road / Sumitr Pitiphat; title: India's Place on Ancient Trade Routes / Bal Krishen Thapar; title: Persian and Chinese Art Exchanges Along Silk Roads / Akbar Mokhtar Tadjvidi; title: Chinese influence on Persian Paintings of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Sugimura Toh; title: Chinese Impact on Mamluk Minor Arts / Hassan El-Basha; title: Turkish Contributions to Cultural and Commercial Life Along Silk Road / Nejat Diyabekirli; title: Silk and the European Economy / Luigi de Rosa.