Eleventh volume of Brill Book Series

We are pleased to announce the release of the eleventh volume in the series published by Brill: Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture. The book is edited by Michelle C. Wang and Ryan Richard Overbey. For more information or to order, please visit https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/692833

Silk Road studies has often treated material artifacts and manuscripts separately. This interdisciplinary volume expands the scope of transcultural transmission, questions what constituted a “book,” and explores networks of circulation shared by material artifacts and manuscripts. Featuring new research in English by international scholars in Buddhist studies, art history, and literary studies, the essays in Beyond the Silk and Book Roads chart new and exciting directions in Silk Road studies.

Contributors are: Ge Jiyong, George A. Keyworth, Ding Li, Ryan Richard Overbey, Hao Chunwen, Wu Shaowei, Liu Yi, Lan Wu, Sha Wutian, Michelle C. Wang, and Stephen Roddy.

Table of Content:

Preliminary Material
Editors: Ryan Richard Overbey and Michelle C. Wang

Acknowledgments
Editors: Ryan Richard Overbey and Michelle C. Wang

Figures
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Introduction (1–5)
Editors: Ryan Richard Overbey and Michelle C. Wang

Part 1 Textual Production and Circulation

1. Chapter 1 Chinese Bamboo Slips Unearthed Abroad and the Book Road in East Asia: On the Bamboo Slips of the Analects (Pages: 9–37)
  Author: Jiyong Ge
2. Chapter 2 Vowing the Buddhist Canon along the Silk Road(s): A Study of Colophons to Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Japan (Pages: 38–96)
  Author: George A. Keyworth
3. Chapter 3 The Transmission of Medieval Chinese Paintings to Japan: Paintings on the “Book Road” and Their Reception (Pages: 97–125)
  Author: Li Ding
4. Chapter 4 A Gandhāran among the Türks: Buddhist Texts and Travels in the Biographies of *Dhyānagupta (528–605) (Pages: 126–150)
  Author: Ryan Richard Overbey
5. Chapter 5 The Circulation of Texts between Dunhuang and Other Regions as Viewed from the Dunhuang Manuscripts (Pages: 151–193)
  Author: Authors: Chunwen Hao and Shaowei Wu

Part 2 Centers and Peripheries

1. Chapter 6 The Khotanese and Tibetan Transmission of the Narrative of the Destruction of the Dharma in the Kingdom of Kauśāmbī II: Discussion (Pages: 197–229)
  Author: Yi Liu
2. Chapter 7 An Epistolary Buddhist Network between Lhasa and Beijing in the 1740s (Pages: 230–253)
  Author: Lan Wu
3. Chapter 8 Images of Silk along the Silk Roads: Dunhuang Mural Paintings and Tang Funerary Figurines (Pages: 254–325)
  Author: Wutian Sha
4. Chapter 9 Birds of a Feather: Mahāmāyūrī between Khotan and Dunhuang (Pages: 326–364)
  Author: Michelle C. Wang
5. Chapter 10 White Silk, Gold Thread, Frosted Temples, and Fat Faces: The Radiating Branches of Zhuzhici, ca. 1700–1900 (Pages: 365–393)
  Author: Stephen Roddyu

Index

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