My translation of Professor H.K. Chang’s <丝路文明: 15 讲> (Civilizations on the Silk Road) has been published by the UK’s Routledge.
Table of Contents: 1. “Civilization”: Origins, Diversity & Continuity 2. Alexander’s Eastern Campaigns, Hellenism & Gandharan Art 3. Mysteries of the Western Regions: Pioneering Zhang
Qian & Han Dynasty Explorers 4. Buddhism’s Genesis: To the West Is a Deity, Buddha Is His Name 5. Buddhism’s Spread in China: Contemporaries Kumarajiva and Faxian— The Encounter that Didn’t Happen 6. Sogdians along the Silk Road 7. Golden Peaches of Samarkand 8. Silk & Paper 9. Printing Migrates West, Alphabets Migrate East 10. Origins and Spread of Islamic Civilization 11. Islam in China 12. Rise of the Turkic-speaking Peoples and their Westward Migration 13. Westward Migration of the Turkic Peoples: From the Syr Darya to the Danube 14. Eurasia under Mongol Rule 15. The Timurid Empire
& the Ming Treasure Voyages
Ethnic ChinaLit 