Dear all
Let us share with you the good news that _The Journey of Maps and
Images on the Silk Road_ is about to be published.
Friends and colleagues who happen to be in the Zurich area on
November 21st, 2008 are most kindly invited to the book vernissage
which will be combined with a public lecture held by Professor Thomas
Hoellmann (University of Munich) on "China und die Seidenstrasse",
organized by the Abteilung für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens (University
of Zurich) and the Rietberg-Gesellschaft.
Best wishes, Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony
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_The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road_,
ed. by Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony,
Brill's Inner Asian Library, vol. 21,
Leiden: Brill, 2008, lxiv, 243 p., 69 pl., fold-out map
ISBN 978 90 04 17165 7
ISSN 1566-7162
EUR 49.00 / USD 79.00
http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=30913
This book covers new ground on the diffusion and transmission of
geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the
long history of the Silk Road.
Much of twentieth-century scholarship on the Silk Road examined the
ancient archaeological objects and medieval historical records found
within each cultural area, while the consequences of long-distance
interaction across Eurasia remained poorly studied. Here ample
attention is given to the journeys that notions and objects undertook
to transmit spatial values to other civilizations. In retracing the
steps of four major circuits right across the many civilizations that
shared the Silk Road, The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road
traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial,
historical and cultural divisions.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Transliterations and Conventions
List of Illustrations and Maps
Foreword - Lorenz Hurni
Preface: What Is a Map? - Valerie Hansen
INTRODUCTION - Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony
PART I: THE BUDDHIST ROAD
1 Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty Iconography: Questions and
Hypotheses -
Nicolas Zufferey
2 Visualizing Pilgrimage and Mapping Experience: Mount Wutai on the
Silk Road - Natasha Heller
3 The Mapping of Sacred Space: Images of Buddhist Cosmographies in
Medieval China -
Dorothy C. Wong
PART II: THE MONGOL ROAD
4 Lost in Translation: Gridded Plans and Maps along the Silk Road -
Jonathan Bloom
5 Square Horoscope Diagrams in Middle Eastern Astrology and Chinese
Cosmological Diagrams: Were These Designs Transmitted through the
Silk Road? - Johannes Thomann
6 The Intrusion of East Asian Imagery in Thirteenth-Century Armenia:
Political and Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Road - Dickran Kouymjian
PART III: WITHIN THE ISLAMIC WORLD
7 Comparing al-Kashghari’s Map to His Text: On the Visual Language,
Purpose, and Transmission of Arabic-Islamic Maps - Andreas Kaplony
8 The Book of Curiosities: A Medieval Islamic View of the East -
Yossef Rapoport
PART IV: THE MEDITERRANEAN ROAD
9 Celestial Maps and Illustrations in Arabic-Islamic Astronomy - Paul
Kunitzsch
10 Revisiting Catalan Portolan Charts: Do They Contain Elements of
Asian Provenance? - Sonja Brentjes
CONCLUSION - Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony
Appendix: List of Geographical Nomenclature in al-Kāshgharī’s Text
and Map - Andreas Kaplony
General Bibliography
Index
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Einladung
zu einem Gastvortrag von
Herr Prof. Dr. Thomas O. Höllmann
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
Eine Veranstaltung der Abteilung für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens und
der Rietberg-Gesellschaft, anlässlich der Veröffentlichung des Buches
The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road
(Philippe Forêt und Andreas Kaplony, Hg.)
Freitag, 21. November 2008, 19.30 Uhr
im Vortragssaal der Park-Villa Rieter, Museum Rietberg,
zum Thema:
China und die Seidenstrasse
DozentInnen, Studierende und weitere Interessierte sind zu diesem
Gastvortrag herzlich eingeladen.
Zürich, 29. Oktober, 2008
Prof. Dr. Hans Bjarne Thomsen
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Fatke, Dekan
http://www.khist.uzh.ch/Ostasien/Aktuelles/AktuelleVortraege.html
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Kaplony
Orientalisches Seminar, Universität Zürich
Wiesenstrasse 9, Büro H-05, CH-8008 Zürich
Tel. 0(041)44 634 07 36, Fax 0(041)44 634 36 92
www.ori.uzh.ch. [log in to unmask]
Projekt Handel und Verkehr in Zentralasien: http://www.ori.uzh.ch/
research/centralasia/centralasiainfo.html
The Arabic Papyrology Database: www.ori.uzh.ch/apd
The Arabic Papyrology School: www.ori.uzh.ch/aps
The Arabic Papyrology Webclass: www.ori.uzh.ch/apw
The Media Arabic Webclass: www.ori.uzh.ch/maw
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