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" The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road / "
edited by Philippe Forêt, Andreas Kaplony
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BL
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689747
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b511936
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| Title & Author
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The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road /\ edited by Philippe Forêt, Andreas Kaplony
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| Publication Statement
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Leiden ;Boston :: Brill,, 2008
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| Series Statement
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Brill's Inner Asian library,; v. 21
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xxxi, 243 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;; 25 cm
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9004171657 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 9789004171657 (hardback : alk. paper)
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| Notes
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Includes one folded plate of col. maps
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-229) and index
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| Contents
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Foreword / Lorenz Hurni -- Preface : what is a map? / Valerie Hansen -- Introduction / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty iconography : questions and hypotheses / Nicolas Zufferey -- Visualizing pilgrimage and mapping experience : Mount Wutai on the Silk Road / Natasha Heller -- The mapping of sacred space : images of Buddhist cosmographies in medieval China / Dorothy C. Wong -- Lost in translation : gridded plans and maps along the Silk Road / Jonathan M. Bloom -- Square horoscope diagrams in Middle Eastern astrology and Chinese cosmological diagrams : were these designs transmitted through the Silk Road? / Johannes Thomann -- The intrusion of East Asian imagery in thirteenth-century Armenia : political and cultural exchange along the Silk Road / Dickran Kouymjian -- Comparing al-Kāshgharī's map to his text : on the visual language, purpose, and transmission of Arabic-Islamic maps / Andreas Kaplony -- The Book of curiosities : a medieval Islamic view of the East / Yossef Rapoport -- Celestial maps and illustrations in Arabic-Islamic astronomy / Paul Kunitzsch -- Revisiting Catalan portolan charts : do they contain elements of Asian provenance? / Sonja Brentjes -- Conclusion / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Appendix. List of geographical nomenclature in al-Kāshgharī's text and map / Andreas Kaplony
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Cartography-- Asia-- History
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Cartography-- Silk Road-- History
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Trade routes-- Asia-- Maps-- History
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Asia, Maps, History
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Asia, Historical geography
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Silk Road, Maps, History
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| Dewey Classification
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911/.5
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G2201.S1J6 2008
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Forêt, Philippe,1957-
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Kaplony, Andreas
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