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Author : Owen Lattimore
Publisher : AMS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Desert Road to Turkestan written by Owen Lattimore and published by AMS Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Owen Lattimore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Desert Road to Turkestan written by Owen Lattimore and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Owen Lattimore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Desert Road to Turkestan ... With 48 Illustrations, Etc written by Owen Lattimore and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Owen Lattimore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Desert Road to Turkestan. Twentieth Century Travel Through Innermost Asia, Along Caravan Trails Over which Oriental Commerce was Once Borne from China to the Medieval Western World written by Owen Lattimore and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Stevens
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 9780871131904
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Night Train to Turkistan written by Stuart Stevens and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first account of travel in Chinese Turkistan, closed to foreigners since 1949, shows a world where bureaucratic hazards often loom larger than geographical ones. First serial to Esquire.
Author : Eleanor Holgate Lattimore
Publisher : Kodansha Globe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Turkestan Reunion written by Eleanor Holgate Lattimore and published by Kodansha Globe. This book was released on 1994 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the steppes and peaks of high Asia, here is the unforgettable chronicle of a harrowing honeymoon adventure. Turkestan Reunion, a series of long "letters home", is Eleanor Lattimore's vibrant, gem-like counterpart to husband Owen's classic historical account of the same journey in High Tartary. Line drawings.
Author : Joyce Morgan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762787333
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Journeys on the Silk Road written by Joyce Morgan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world’s great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist teaching, made 500 years before Gutenberg inked his press, is the world’s oldest printed book. The Silk Road once linked China with the Mediterranean. It conveyed merchants, pilgrims and ideas. But its cultures and oases were swallowed by shifting sands. Central to the Silk Road’s rediscovery was a man named Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar and archaeologist employed by the British service. Undaunted by the vast Gobi Desert, Stein crossed thousands of desolate miles with his fox terrier Dash. Stein met the Chinese monk and secured the Diamond Sutra and much more. The scroll’s journey—by camel through arid desert, by boat to London’s curious scholars, by train to evade the bombs of World War II—merges an explorer’s adventures, political intrigue, and continued controversy. The Diamond Sutra has inspired Jack Kerouac and the Dalai Lama. Its journey has coincided with the growing appeal of Buddhism in the West. As the Gutenberg Age cedes to the Google Age, the survival of the Silk Road’s greatest treasure is testament to the endurance of the written word.
Author : M. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230270638
Total Pages : 1506 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Year-Book written by M. Epstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 1506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307278506
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Imperial Grunts written by Robert D. Kaplan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror. Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading the charge against threats to American security. These soldiers, fighting in thick Colombian jungles or on dusty Afghani plains, are the forefront of the new American foreign policy, a policy being implemented one soldier at a time. As Kaplan brings us inside their thoughts, feelings, and operations, these modern grunts provide insight and understanding into the War on Terror, bringing the war, which sometimes seems so distant, vividly to life.
Author : David Brophy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970462
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Uyghur Nation written by David Brophy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia’s Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and the revolutions that engulfed Russia and China in the early twentieth century. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic changes by reinventing themselves as the modern Uyghur nation. As exiles and émigrés, traders and seasonal laborers, a diverse diaspora of Muslims from China’s northwest province of Xinjiang spread to Russian territory, where they became enmeshed in political and intellectual currents among Russia’s Muslims. From the many national and transnational discourses of identity that circulated in this mixed community, the rhetoric of Uyghur nationhood emerged as a rallying point in the tumult of the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War. Working both with and against Soviet policy, a shifting alliance of constituencies invoked the idea of a Uyghur nation to secure a place for itself in Soviet Central Asia and to spread the revolution to Xinjiang. Although its existence was contested in the fractious politics of the 1920s, in the 1930s the Uyghur nation achieved official recognition in the Soviet Union and China. Grounded in a wealth of little-known archives from across Eurasia, Uyghur Nation offers a bottom-up perspective on nation-building in the Soviet Union and China and provides crucial background to the ongoing contest for the history and identity of Xinjiang.
Author : Brian Fagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019977000X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book From Stonehenge to Samarkand written by Brian Fagan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Roman tourists scratched graffiti on the pyramids and temples of Egypt over two thousand years ago, people have traveled far and wide seeking the great wonders of antiquity. In From Stonehenge to Samarkand, noted archaeologist and popular writer Brian Fagan offers an engaging historical account of our enduring love of ancient architecture--the irresistible impulse to visit strange lands in search of lost cities and forgotten monuments. Here is a marvelous history of archaeological tourism, with generous excerpts from the writings of the tourists themselves. Readers will find Herodotus describing the construction of Babylon; Edward Gibbon receiving inspiration for his seminal work while wandering through the ruins of the Forum in Rome; Gustave Flaubert watching the sunrise from atop the Pyramid of Cheops. We visit Easter Island with Pierre Loti, Machu Picchu with Hiram Bingham, Central Africa with David Livingstone. Fagan describes the early antiquarians, consumed with a passionate and omnivorous curiosity, pondering the mysteries of Stonehenge, but he also considers some of the less reputable figures, such as the Earl of Elgin, who sold large parts of the Parthenon to the British Museum. Finally, he discusses the changing nature of archaeological tourism, from the early romantic wanderings of the solitary figure, communing with the departed spirits of Druids or Mayans, to the cruise-ship excursions of modern times, where masses of tourists are hustled through ruins, barely aware of their surroundings. From the Holy Land to the Silk Road, the Yucatán to Angkor Wat, Fagan follows in the footsteps of the great archaeological travelers to retrieve their first written impressions in a book that will delight anyone fascinated with the landmarks of ancient civilization.
Author : Susan M. Walcott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135078750
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Eurasian Corridors of Interconnection written by Susan M. Walcott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connectivity, as well as conflict, characterizes Eurasia. This edited volume explores dynamic geopolitical and geo-economic links reconfiguring spaces from the eastern edge of Europe through the western edge of Asia, seeking explanation beyond description. The ancient Silk Road tied together space, much as pipelines, railroads, telecommunications infrastructure, and similar cultural and constructed links ease the mobility of people and products in modern Eurasia. This book considers Eurasia along an interlinked corridor, with chapters illustrating the connections as a discussion foundation focusing on the shared interactions of a set of nation states through time and across space, generating more positive considerations of the resurgently important region of Eurasia. China’s interests fall into three chapters: the southeastern border with Vietnam, the southwestern Himalayan edge, and the western Muslim regions. Russia’s recovery relates events to a larger landmass context and focuses on the importance of historic mobility. A geo-history of the Caspian considers this petroleum-rich area as a zone of cultural and economic interconnection. The final focus on Central Asia treats the traditional heart of “Eurasia”. The concluding chapter pulls together strands linking subregions for a new concept of “Eurasia” as an area linked by vital interests and overlapping histories.
Author : Raphael Israeli
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739103753
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Islam in China written by Raphael Israeli and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Are they really Muslims?" Islam in China reveals the struggle for identity of the small yet vital Muslim community of China, a little studied minority on the fringes of the Islamic world now thrust into the spotlight by the opening of China to the world and the rise of independent Muslim republics on China's western borders. Both timely and important, the multifaceted essays--- collection of over twenty years of Raphael Israeli's scholarship on Chinese Muslims--offer detailed insight into the relationship between China's non-Muslim majority and an increasingly self-confident guest culture. The work uncovers a history of uneasy ethnic, philosophical, and ideological coexistence, the gradual sinification of the Chinese Muslim creed, and the increasing accommodation of Islam by a modern, westernizing China. In addition, it highlights a religious group riddled with sectarianism; factional rifts that reveal the doctrinal, social, and political diversity at the core of Chinese Islam.
Author : S. Adshead
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137118121
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)
Download or read book China in World History written by S. Adshead and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition provides a new preface to this highly popular book. The theme of the book is China's relations with the non-Chinese world, not only political and economic, but cultural, social and technological as well. It seeks to show that China's history is part of everyone's history. In particular it traces China's relationship since the thirteenth century to the emergent world order and the various world institutions of which that order is composed. Each chapter discusses China's comparative place in the world, the avenues of contact between China and other civilizations, and who and what passed along those channels.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349624098
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)
Download or read book China in World History, Third Edition written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition provides a new preface to this highly popular book. The theme of the book is China's relations with the non-Chinese world, not only political and economic, but cultural, social and technological as well. It seeks to show that China's history is part of everyone's history. In particular it traces China's relationship since the thirteenth century to the emergent world order and the various world institutions of which that order is comprised. Each chapter discusses China's comparative place in the world, the avenues of contact between China and other civilizations, and who and what passed along these channels.
Author : S A M Adshead
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349192643
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book China in World History written by S A M Adshead and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C.n Andrews
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5871563414
Total Pages : 869 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (715 download)
Download or read book The new conquest of central Asia a narrative of the explorations of the Central Asiatic expeditions in Mongolia and China, 1921-1930 written by C.n Andrews and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
