Volume 16 (2018)

From the Editor

Recent Excavations of Xiongnu Graves on the Left Bank of the Ulug-Khem in Tuva
Marina Kulinovskaya and Pavel Leus
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Japanese Spies in Inner Asia during the Early Twentieth Century
Jin Noda
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Sogdians in Khotan
Zhang Zhan

Caravan Routes East of Chang’an: Iranian Elements in the Buddhist Art of Shandong Province
Li Sifei
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On the Northern Branch of the Great Silk Road: A Celadon Dish from the Excavations at Novgorod the Great
Marina Anatol’evna Rodionova and Iakov Viktorovich Frenkel’
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One Bow (or Stirrup) Is Not Equal to Another: A Comparative Look at Hun and Mongol Military Technologies
Samuel Rumschlag
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Heroes Fighting Snake Demons: Problems of Identification in Panjikent Paintings
Matteo Compareti
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BOOK REVIEWS

Susan Whitfield, Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road
Justin M. Jacobs
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Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Hyecho’s Journey: The World of Buddhism
Justin M. Jacobs
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BOOK NOTICES

The following all written/compiled by Daniel C. Waugh:

  • Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson, eds., How Objects Tell Stories: Essays in Honor of Emma C. Bunker.
  • Shaanxi shifan daxue lishi wenhua xueyuan and Shaanxi lishi bowuguan, eds., Sichou zhi lu yanjiu jikan (di er ji).
  • Konstantin Vladimirovich Chugunov, Hermann Parzinger, and Anatoli Nagler, Tsarskii kurgan skifskogo vremeni Arzhan-2 v Tuve.
  • Nikolai Nikolaevich Seregin and Vladimir Vladimirovich Tishin, Sotsial’naia istorii tiurkov Tsentral’noi Azii (vtoraia polovina I. tys. n.e.). Chast’ 1: Ocherki sotsial’noi struktury (po pis’mennym i arkheologicheskim istochnikam).
  • Zolotoordynskaia tsivilizatsiia
  • Boris I. Marshak, Istoriia vostochnoi torevtiki III-XIII vv. i problem kul’turnoi preemstvennosti.
  • Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Practising Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate: Gifts and Material Culture in the Medieval Islamic World.
  • Jonathan M. Bloom, The Minaret.
  • Erika Monahan, The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia.
  • Sergei Vasil’evich Bereznitskii, Karavannaia torgovlia Rossii s Kitaem i otechestvennaia nauka XVIII veka.
  • L. Ia. Borkin, Rossiiskie gimalaiskie issledovaniia: vchera, segodnia, zavtra.
  • John Falconer, Under Indian Skies: 19th-Century Photographs from a Private Collection.
  • Nataliia V. Polos’mak and Evgenii S. Bogdanov, Rezul’taty raboty rossiisko-mongol’skoi ekspeditsii 2006-2012 gg.
  • Materialy i issledovaniia Otdela numizmatiki. Po materialam Mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii “Dva veka musul’manskoi numismatiki v Rossii. Itogi i perspektivy”.
  • Materialy i issledovaniia Otdela numismatiki. Po materialam konferentsii “Sfragistika, nu‐mismatika, geral’dika srednevekovogo Kryma”.
  • Dmitrii Mikhailovich Timokhin and Vladimir Vladimirovich Tishin, Ocherki istorii Khorezma i Vostochnogo Desht‐i Kypchaka v XI‐ nachale XIII vv.