Full text PDF of The Silk Road, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter/Spring 2009)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ARTICLES

Korea and the Silk Roads
Staffan Rosén

Alexander the Great and the Emergence of the Silk Road
Yang Juping

Centaurs on the Silk Road: Recent Discoveries of Hellenistic Textiles in Western China
Robert A. Jones

Dialogue among the Civilizations: the Origin of the Three Guardian Deities’ Images in Cave 285, Mogao Grottoes
Zhang Yuanlin

Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: Possible Religious Symbolism within the Late-Song Paintings
Zsuzsa Majer and Krisztina Teleki

Shrine Pilgrimage among the Uighurs
Rahilä Dawut