Walls and Frontiers in Inner-Asian History (Silk Road Studies)

Part 1 : China, Russia and Central Asia ; S. LIEU; Nestorian Angels from Central Asia and other Christian and Manichaean Remains at Zaitun (Quanzhou) on the South China Coast; C. MACKERRAS; Xinjiang at the Turn of the Century, and the Causes of Separatism; D. CHRISTIAN; Tsarist Russia in the Context of World History; F. PATRIKEEF; An Elaboration of Empire: Russia's Eastward Expansion and the Imperial Military, 1584-1917Part 2 : Politics, Conflict and the Perception of Empire ; C. BENJAMIN; The Origin of the Yuezhi; J. MARKLEY, Gaozu Confronts the Shanyu: The Han Dynasty's First Clash with the Xiongnu; G. WATSON; Images of Central Asia in the 'Central Asian Question' c. 1826-1885; K. NOURZHANOV; The Politics of History in Tajikistan: Reinventing the SamanidsPart 3 : Cultural and Religious Exchanges along the Silk Roads ; E. C.D. HUNTER; Converting the Turkic Tribes; F. KIDD, The Chronology and Style of a Group of Sogdian Statuettes; K. PARRY; Japan and the Silk Road Legacy; D. COURT; Concealing and Revealing Women in Central Asia: A Case Study of the Paranja.