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"Enlightening new book. . . . recounts the history of the eastern Silk Road, from Samarkand to Chang'an, through 10 individuals--composites based on the historical record--who lived in different city-states along the eastern Silk Road from the 8th to the 10th centuries. Whitfield's skillfully crafted tales take readers on a journey back to the heyday of the Silk Road and enable them to relive its people's unusual existence."--Liya Li, "The Bloomsbury Review
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In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Linking Europe, India, and the Far East, the route passed through many countries and many settlements, from the splendid city of Samarkand to tiny desert hamlets. Susan Whitfield creates a rich and varied portrait of life along the greatest trade route in history in a vivid, lively, and learned account that spans the eighth through the tenth centuries. Recounting the lives of ten individuals who lived at different times during this period, Whitfield draws on contemporary sources and uses firsthand accounts whenever possible to reconstruct the history of the route through the personal experiences of these characters."Life along the Silk Road" brings alive the now ruined and sand-covered desert towns and their inhabitants. Readers encounter an Ulghur nomad from the Gobi Desert accompanying a herd of steppe ponies for sale to the Chinese state; Ah-long, widow of a prosperous merchant, now reduced to poverty and forced to resort to law and charity to survive; and the Chinese princess sent as part of a diplomatic deal to marry a Turkish kaghan. In the process we learn about women's lives, modes of communication, weapons, types of cosmetics, methods of treating altitude sickness in the Tibetan army, and ways that merchants cheated their customers.Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road - everyone from itinerant Buddhist monks, to Zoroastrians and Nestorian Christians seeking converts among the desert settlers, to storytellers, musicians, courtesans, diviners, peddlers, and miracle -workers who offered their wares in the marketplaces and at temple fairs. A work of great scholarship, "Life Along the Silk Road" is at the same time extremely accessible and entertaining.
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- VerlagUniversity of California Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2000
- ISBN 10 0520224728
- ISBN 13 9780520224728
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. XI, 242 p.: Ill., Maps. Ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / A very good and clean copy without markings. - Contents Illustrations Preface Note on Names and Romanization Map Introduction The Merchant's Tale The Soldier's Tale The Horseman's Tale The Princess's Tale The Monk's Tale The Courtesan's Tale The Nun's Tale The Widow's Tale The Official's Tale The Artist's Tale Epilogue Further Reading Table of Rulers, Index. ISBN 9780520224728 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 585. Artikel-Nr. 1224573
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