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Title Silk : trade and exchange along the silk roads between Rome and China in antiquity / edited by Berit Hildebrandt.

Publication Info. Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Ancient textiles series ; 29
Ancient textiles series ; 29.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Table of contents; Preface; Introduction: Silk on the Silk Roads. Exchange between East and West in Antiquity Berit Hildebrandt ; 1. Looking towards the West -- how the Chinese viewed the Romans Liu Xinru; 2. Textiles and trade in South Asia during the Proto-Historic and Early Historic Period J. Mark Kenoyer; 3. Word migration on the Silk Road: the etymology of English silk and its congeners Adam Hyllested; 4. Silk production and trade in the Roman Empire Berit Hildebrandt
5. Perspectives on the wide world of luxury in later Antiquity: silk and other exotic textiles found in Syria and Egypt Thelma K. Thomas6. Decoration, astrology and empire: inscribed silk from Niya in the Taklamakan Desert Lillian Lan-ying Tseng; 7. Domestic, wild or unraveled? A study on tabby, taqueté and jin with spun silk from Yingpan, Xinjiang, third-fourth centuries Zhao Feng; 8. Chinese silks that circulated among peoples north and west: implications for technological exchange in early times? Angela Sheng
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Subject Silk -- China -- History -- To 1500.
Silk.
China.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Silk industry -- China -- History -- To 1500.
Silk industry.
Silk Road -- History.
China -- Relations -- Rome.
Rome -- Relations -- China.
Rome (Empire)
Relations.
China -- Commerce -- Rome -- History.
Rome -- Commerce -- China -- History.
Commerce.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hildebrandt, Berit, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Silk Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016 9781785702792 (DLC) 2016040016
ISBN 9781785702808 (electronic book)
1785702807 (electronic book)
9781785702815
1785702815
9781785702822
1785702823
9781785702792 (hardback)
1785702793