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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am delighted to announce the publication of Vol. 18 (2020) of The Silk Road<\/em><\/a>. After a trying and often traumatic year that disrupted many of the normal rhythms and cycles of academic life, a return to normalcy is finally on the horizon. It is perhaps fitting then that the latest volume of The Silk Road<\/em>\u00a0looks not only back in time, but also to the future. In addition to fascinating articles on the ancient peoples and monuments of the Silk Road\u2014stone-joint metal clamps in China and Korea, medieval Muslim conceptions of “China,” the conservation of a mausoleum in Afghanistan\u2014it also presents insightful work on the modern Silk Roads: the German expeditions to Turfan, urban change in Kashgar, Mongol tourism in China, and Italian ethnographers in Afghanistan. A remembrance of the great Sergei Stepanovich Miniaev reminds us of those we have lost over the past year. Rounding out the volume is our usual collection of book reviews and notices, including an overview of the innovative digital exhibition on the Sogdians hosted by the Freer and Sackler Galleries.<\/p>\n

Kashgar: Lost in the Mists of Time\u2014A Photo Essay<\/a><\/span>
\nDaniel C. Waugh<\/p>\n

Conservation of the Mausoleum of Shahzada Abdullah in Kuhandiz, Herat<\/span><\/a>
\nJolyon Leslie<\/p>\n

The “Turfan Files” in the Museum of Asian Art, Berlin<\/a><\/span>
\nCaren Dreyer<\/p>\n

A Study of Stone-joint Metal Clamps in China and Korea during the 6th-8th Centuries<\/span><\/a>
\nHongnam Kim<\/p>\n

Appellations of China in Medieval Muslim Literature<\/span><\/a>
\nChen Chunxiao<\/p>\n

The True Origin of the Mongols?<\/span><\/a>
\nJohn Man<\/p>\n

Piero Morandi, An Italian Traveler in Kafiristan<\/span><\/a>
\nLuca Villa<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

NOTICES AND REVIEWS<\/span><\/p>\n

In Memoriam: Sergei Stepanovich Miniaev<\/i><\/a><\/span>
\nDaniel C. Waugh<\/p>\n

Christoph Baumer, <\/span>The History of Central Asia. Vol. 4:\u00a0<\/i>The<\/i><\/span>\u00a0Age of Decline and Revival<\/i><\/a>
\nTimothy May<\/p>\n

Michael Biran et al., eds., Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals<\/em><\/a><\/span>
\nMorris Rossabi<\/p>\n

Moritz Huber, Lives of Sogdians in Medieval China<\/em><\/a><\/span>
\nMichael Drompp<\/p>\n

Hermann Kreutzmann<\/a>, Hunza Matters: Bordering and Ordering between Ancient and New Silk Roads<\/em><\/i><\/a><\/span>
\nRobert Middleton<\/p>\n

Freer and Sackler Galleries (Smithsonian)<\/a>, The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Road<\/em><\/i><\/a><\/span>
\nLilla Russell-Smith<\/p>\n

Book and Journal Notices<\/a><\/span>
\nCompiled by Daniel C. Waugh<\/p>\n

Appendix: Hagia Sophia\u2014A Photo Essay<\/span><\/a>
\nDaniel C. Waugh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am delighted to announce the publication of Vol. 18 (2020) of The Silk Road. After a trying and often traumatic year that disrupted many of the normal rhythms and cycles of academic life, a return to normalcy is finally on the horizon. It is perhaps fitting then that the latest volume of The Silk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":729,"date":"2020-07-27T02:04:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T02:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/?p=729"},"modified":"2020-07-27T02:09:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T02:09:44","slug":"hagia-sophia-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/2020\/07\/27\/hagia-sophia-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Hagia Sophia Revisited: A Photo Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Hagia Sophia is one of the oldest sites of continuous worship in the world and an iconic symbol of cultural exchange across Eurasia. Since its founding in the year 537, the Hagia Sophia has alternately served as a Christian church and Islamic mosque for many centuries. In 1935, it was turned into a museum, which is now visited by millions of people every year. In July 2020, it was again converted back into a mosque, thereby eliciting a wide range of reactions from the global community. In response to this renewed attention\u2014and in some cases controversy\u2014our former editor Daniel C. Waugh has taken the opportunity to revisit his voluminous photographic archives and has assembled an engaging photo essay<\/a> about the art, architecture, and history of the Hagia Sophia. To access the full essay, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hagia Sophia is one of the oldest sites of continuous worship in the world and an iconic symbol of cultural exchange across Eurasia. Since its founding in the year 537, the Hagia Sophia has alternately served as a Christian church and Islamic mosque for many centuries. In 1935, it was turned into a museum, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":721,"date":"2020-03-03T19:53:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/?p=721"},"modified":"2020-03-06T00:50:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:50:01","slug":"vol-17-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/silkroadjournal\/2020\/03\/03\/vol-17-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Vol. 17 Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of Vol. 17 (2019) of The Silk Road<\/em><\/a>. We begin with a critical re-examination of Richthofen’s vaunted distinction as the inventor of the phrase “the Silk Road” and an in-depth interview with Roderick Whitfield on his career working with the Stein collection in the British Museum. Next up are stimulating features on the forgotten history of the Museo Indiano in Bologna, knotted carpets and cultural exchange along the Taklamakan, Sogdian fashions in early Tang China, modern Chinese colophons on the Dunhuang manuscripts, and a photo essay on camel fairs in India. Book reviews by Susan Whitfield, Samuel Rumschlag, Charles J. Halperin, and Barbara Kaim follow.<\/p>\n

From the Editor<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Did Richthofen Really Coin “the Silk Road”?<\/a><\/span>
\nMatthias Mertens<\/p>\n

An Interview with Roderick Whitfield on the Stein Collection in the British Museum<\/span><\/a>
\nSonya S. Lee<\/p>\n

Faces of the Buddha: Lorenzo Pull\u00e8 and the Museo Indiano in Bologna, 1907-35<\/a><\/span>
\nLuca Villa<\/p>\n

Knotted Carpets from the Taklamakan: A Medium of Ideological and Aesthetic Exchange on the Silk Road, 700 BCE-700 CE<\/span><\/a>
\nZhang He<\/p>\n

Some Notes on Sogdian Costume in Early Tang China<\/span><\/a>
\nSergey A. Yatsenko<\/p>\n

An Analysis of Modern Chinese Colophons on the Dunhuang Manuscripts<\/span><\/a>
\nJustin M. Jacobs<\/p>\n

Camel Fairs in India: A Photo Essay<\/span><\/a>
\nHarvey Follender<\/p>\n

BOOK REVIEWS<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert N. Spengler III, Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Food We Eat<\/em><\/i><\/a><\/span>
\nSusan Whitfield<\/p>\n

Thomas T. Allsen, The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire<\/em><\/a><\/span>
\nSamuel Rumschlag<\/p>\n

Roman Hautala, Crusaders, Missionaries, and Eurasian Nomads in the 13th-14th Centuries<\/em><\/a><\/span>
\nCharles J. Halperin<\/p>\n

Istv<\/a><\/span>\u00e1n Zimonyi, Medieval Nomads in Eastern Europe<\/em><\/a><\/span>
\nCharles J. Halperin<\/p>\n

Baumer and Nov<\/a>\u00e1<\/a>k, eds., Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids<\/em><\/i><\/a><\/span>
\nBarbara Kaim<\/p>\n

JOURNAL AND CONFERENCE NOTICES<\/span><\/p>\n