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The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road /

9004171657 (hardback : alk. paper)

9789004171657 (hardback : alk. paper)

b511936

The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road /

[Book]

edited by Philippe Forêt, Andreas Kaplony

Boston :

Brill,

2008

xxxi, 243 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates :

illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;

25 cm

Brill's Inner Asian library,

v. 21

1566-7162 ;

Includes one folded plate of col. maps

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-229) and index

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

Cartography-- Silk Road-- History

Trade routes-- Asia-- Maps-- History

Asia, Historical geography

Asia, Maps, History

Silk Road, Maps, History

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Forêt, Philippe,1957-

Kaplony, Andreas

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