The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan's Scattered Treasures

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ABSTRACTS OF SILK ROAD PROJECT PAPERS

 

 

  • Marc S. Abramson, "The Chinese Heart: Describing and Expressing Ethnic Identity in Tang China"
  • Janet Baker, "The Image of the Heavenly King in Chinese Tombs and Temples: Sui and Early Tang Examples"
  • Kahar Barat, "Dunhuang and Uighur Sangha Official Systems"
  • Chen Guocan, "The Tax SYstem of the Tang Dynasty as seen in the Turfan Documents"
  • Deng Xiaonan, "Women's Activities Outside the Household in Turfan"
  • Albert Dien, "Tombs Revisited: Another Look at 86TAM384-391"
  • Sarah E. Fraser, "Artists and Workshops in the Turfan Region, Fifth to Ninth Centuries"
  • Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, "Silk Road Syncretism: Buddhism and Shamanism in Culture-Clash"
  • Richard N. Frye, "General Remarks on the Pre-Tang Silk Road"
  • Zsuzsanna Gulacsi, "The Influence of Mani's Piecture-Book on the Formation of Manichean Pictorial Art in Turfan"
  • Valerie Hansen, "How the Chinese Converted to Buddhism (or did they?): What the Turfan Graves Reveal about Religious Change"
  • Judy Chungwa Ho, "Engendering LIfe and the Afterlife: Representations of Women in Turfan"
  • Stanley Insler, "Buddhism in the Niya Documents"
  • Annette Juliano and Judith Lerner, "East Meets West: The Iconographic Program of the Miho Museum Funerary Couch"
  • Denise Leidy, "Bezeklik: SOme THoughts on Iconography and Practice"
  • Ma Shichang, "Kuchina, Qoco, and Dunhuang, with an Emphasis on Buddhist Art"
  • Elizabeth M. Owen, "A Stitch in Time: The Peral-bordered Medallion, from Persia to Japan"
  • Qiu Ling, "Newly Excavated Epitaphs from Jiaohe, Turfan"
  • Rong Xinjiang, "The Taoist Community and Popular Cults in Turfan during the Tang Period"
  • Lilla Russell-Smith, "The Influence of Uighurs on Dunhuang Art"

 

 

  • Larissa N. Schwartz, "Sogdians in the Tang: A Preliminary Look at New Evidence from Guyuan"
  • Angela Sheng, "Textile Production on China's Northwest Frontier from the Sixth to the Seventh Centuries: New Weaves and Their Innovations"
  • Jonathan Karam Skaff, "The Silver Sasanian and Arab-Sasanian Coins Found at Turfan: Their Relationship to International Trade and the Local Economy"
  • Oktor Skjaervo, "Iranian Manicheans in Turfan"
  • Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, "Beiting: City and Ritual Complex"
  • Eric Trombert, "Contracts and Juntian Documents: Two Complementary Source Materials on the Farming System in Turfan"
  • Mariko Walter, "The Western Border of Buddhism, Margiana: The Question of Parthian Buddhism"
  • Wang Binghua, "The Significance of Vertical Pit Tombs in Jiaohe, Turfan"
  • Wang Xiaofu, "Some Relics of Medieval Tibetans and Tibetan Buddhism in Turfan"
  • Wu Min, "A New Look at Silk Textiles Excavated from the Astana Graves at Turfan"
  • Wu Zhen, "Non-Chinese 'Huren' in Materials Excavated from Ancient Tombs of Astana"
  • Victor Xiong, "THe Land-tenure System of Tang China: A Study of the Equal-field System and the Turfan Documents"
  • Nobuyoshi Yamabe, "On the Mural Paintings of Visualizing Monks in Toyok Caves: In Conjunction with the Origin of Some Apocryphal Visualization Texts"
  • Yang Jidong, "The Making of a Chinese Society on the Silk Road: Dunhuang during the Western Han Period"
  • Israfel Yusuf, "Newly Discovered Uighur COntract Documents from Turfan"
  • Zhang Guangda, "Some Iranian Religious Evidence in Turfan Chinese Texts"
  • Zhu Lei, "Upper (and maybe Lower?) Social Strata in Turfan Society During the Gaochang Kingdom (500-640) and Tang Periods"