PUBL.- Silk Road Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1

Distrib. by: Central-Eurasia-L - Announcement List for Central Eurasian Studies

PUBL.- Silk Road Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1

Posted by: Daniel Waugh <dwaugh@u.washington.edu>

I am pleased to announce the publication of the new issue of The Silk
Road, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Summer 2008). The pdf file of this semi-annual
publication of the Silkroad Foundation may be accessed at:

http://www.silkroadfoundation.org/newsletter/vol6num1/srjournal_v6n1.pdf

Note, it is a large file (about 11 MB), which may take a few minutes to load.

Contents of This Issue:

>From the Editor's Desktop: Museums, Entrepreneurship and the Politics
of Cultural Identity, by Daniel C. Waugh

China and Islamic Civilization: Exchange of Techniques and Scientific
Ideas, by George Saliba

On the Road: Caravan Routes of Iran, by Frank and Ruth Harold

Some Buddhist Finds from Khotan: Materials in the Collections of the
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, by Julia Elikhina

The Buddhist Monuments of Adjina-tepa, by Vera Fominikh

Mediating the Power of Dharma: The Mongols' Approaches to Reviving
Buddhism in Mongolia, by Vesna A. Wallace

Tricky Representations: Buddhism in the Cinema during Socialism in
Mongolia, by Manduhai Buyandelger

The Tea Horse Road, by Jeff Fuchs

Book notice: A. M. Leskov, The Maikop Treasure

Note that we cannot accept individual subscriptions for the limited
print version of the journal, which is, however, distributed to
libraries on request.

The journal welcomes contributions, which should be sent to the
undersigned at dwaugh@u.washington.edu.

Daniel Waugh
Editor

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