Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes – serie
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Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World
Inbunden, 2019
1907 kr
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Travelling Pasts, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Tansen Sen, offers an innovative exploration of the issue of heritage in the Indian Ocean world. This collection of essays demonstrates how the heritagization of the past has played a vital role in processes and strategies related to the making of …
Crossroads of Cuisine
The Eurasian Heartland, the Silk Roads and Food
Av Paul David Buell, Eugene N. Anderson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2593 kr
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Crossroads of Cuisine provides a history of foods, and foodways in terms of exchanges taking place in Central Asia and in surrounding areas such as China, Korea or Iran during the last 5000 years, stressing the manner in which East and West, West and East grew together through food. It provides a …
Arabic Medicine in China
Tradition, Innovation, and Change
Av Paul David Buell, Eugene N. Anderson
Inbunden, 2021
3246 kr
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The Huihui Yaofang was an encyclopedia of Near Eastern medicine compiled under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty for the benefit of themselves and the then Chinese medical establishments. Some 15% of the work survives, from a Ming Dynasty edition, and is here translated for the first time into English. We …
Overlapping Cosmologies In Asia
Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Av Bill M. Mak
Inbunden, 2022
2150 kr
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The history of cosmology is often understood in terms of the development of modern science, but Asian cosmological thought and practice touched on many aspects of life, including mathematics, astronomy, politics, philosophy, religion, and art. Because of the deep pervasion of cosmology in culture, …
Mathematics and Physics in Classical Islam
Comparative Perspectives in the History and the Philosophy of Science
Inbunden, 2022
1707 kr
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This book highlights the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and the beginning of the mathematisation of physics in Classical Islam. Exchanges between mathematics, physics, linguistics, arts and music were a factor of creativity and progress in the mathematical, the physical and the social …
China and the Silk Roads (ca. 100 BCE to 1800 CE)
Role and Content of Its Historical Access to the Outside World
Inbunden, 2023
2445 kr
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The book investigates China’s relations to the outside world between ca. 100 BCE and 1800 CE. In contrast to most histories of the Silk Roads, the focus of this book clearly lies on the maritime Silk Road and on the period between Tang and high Qing, selecting aspects that have so far been …
Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture
Mapping Buddhist Book Roads in China and Its Neighbors
Inbunden, 2024
1373 kr
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Now available in paperback, in two volumes, volume 1 and volume 2This comprehensive study explores the dynamic spread of Buddhist print culture in China and its Asian neighbors. It examines a vast selection of Buddhist printed images and texts, not merely as static cultural relics, but holistically …
Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity
China and the Parthians, Sasanians, and Arabs in the First Millennium
Inbunden, 2024
1130 kr
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What type of exchanges occurred between West and East Asia in the first millennium CE? What sort of connections existed between Persia and China? What did the Chinese know of early Islam? This study offers an overview of the cultural, diplomatic, commercial, and religious relationships that …
Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer
Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China and South East & East Asia
Inbunden, 2025
2288 kr
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Maritime politics changed over time, and so did local perceptions and activities. People involved in maritime commerce had to react to changes in government decrees or instructions. This volume introduces political decisions and their background, agents involved into maritime trade – from private …
Transpacific Peru, 1570-1613
Connections with Mexico, the Philippines, and China
Inbunden, 2025
1853 kr
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Classic studies have highlighted the significance of colonial Peru from a transatlantic and European perspective. Transpacific Peru, 1570-1613 expands this view by exploring its pivotal role in transpacific trade. It examines the agency and networks of peruleros—silver-rich merchants—connecting …
Cape Route and the Silk Roads
Av Carmen Amado Mendes, João Paulo Oliveira e Costa
Inbunden, 2026
1653 kr
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Did you know that the fan, which was used in Japan by men, became transformed into a female European accessory when it was adopted by the Portuguese Queen in Lisbon? The Cape Route was opened in 1499 to bring spices to Europe, but the Portuguese vessels also brought other products from the lands of …
