Susan Whitfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 3647907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Whitfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitfield |
| SIGNATURE | WHITFIELD S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways…
Fashion on the Silk Roads, 500–1300
4000 embroidered qabā’s, 4000 ridā’s of silk lined with sable, mink and other furs, 10000 qamīses and ghilālas, 10000 khaftāns, 2000 pair of sirwal of different kinds, 4000 imāmas, 1000 hoods, 1000 capes of different kinds, 5000 kerchiefs of different kinds, 1000 special suits of armour, 50000 ordinary suits of armour, 10000 helmets, 4000 pair of khuff, most lined with sable, mink, and other furs, 4000 pair of jawrab. 1
Stein, Marc Aurel
On the Silk Road
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Silk, Slaves, and Stupas
Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road , Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, …
Life along the Silk Road
In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history and remains the only history of the Silk Road to reconstruct the route through the personal experiences of travelers. In the…
Stein's Silk Road Legacy Revisited
An account of the four expeditions to Chinese Central Asia made at the beginning of the twentieth century by the Hungarian scholar, Aurel Stein; his discoveries and excavations in the ancient cities of the Silk Road, including the famous cache of scrolls he found at Dunhuang. The second part of the article covers the present day activities of the International Dunhuang Project and an expedition made in 2008 to retrace Stein's footsteps and replic…
Was there a Silk Road
Is the 'Silk Road' a meaningful term? Is it being used simply to provide a historical legitimacy for our preoccupation with the dichotomy of east and west, the rising power oflndia and China and the waning of Europe, and our ambivalence towards globalisation? If it ever had any descriptive or analytic force for scholarship, is this now lost and should we discard the term entirely in our scholarly discourse as misleading at best and leave it for t…
Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China
Reviewed by: Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family Susan Whitfield (bio) Ning Qiang . Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. xv, 178 pp. Hardcover $39.00, ISBN 0-8248-2703-1. Every so often there is an archaeological find that proves so important as to attract the attention of a body of scholars devoted to interpr…
Life along the Silk Road
The International Dunhuang Project (IDP)
(1997). The International Dunhuang Project (IDP): Creating a Scholarly Partnership. Early Medieval China: Vol. 1997, No. 1, pp. 126-137
T'ai-Shang kan-ying p'ien
T'ai-Shang kan-ying p'ien: Lao-Tzu's treatise on the response of the Tao. A contemporary translation of the most popular Taoist book in China. By Li Ying-Chan, translated by Eva Wong with an historical introduction by Sean Dennison. (Sacred Literature Series.) pp. xxxxv, 102, illus. San Francisco etc., HarperCollins, 1994. - Volume 6 Issue 1
International Dunhuang Project
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Silk, Slaves, and Stupas
Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road , Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, …
T'ai-Shang kan-ying p'ien
T'ai-Shang kan-ying p'ien: Lao-Tzu's treatise on the response of the Tao. A contemporary translation of the most popular Taoist book in China. By Li Ying-Chan, translated by Eva Wong with an historical introduction by Sean Dennison. (Sacred Literature Series.) pp. xxxxv, 102, illus. San Francisco etc., HarperCollins, 1994. - Volume 6 Issue 1
International Dunhuang Project
.
The International Dunhuang Project (IDP)
(1997). The International Dunhuang Project (IDP): Creating a Scholarly Partnership. Early Medieval China: Vol. 1997, No. 1, pp. 126-137
Life along the Silk Road
Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China
Reviewed by: Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family Susan Whitfield (bio) Ning Qiang . Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. xv, 178 pp. Hardcover $39.00, ISBN 0-8248-2703-1. Every so often there is an archaeological find that proves so important as to attract the attention of a body of scholars devoted to interpr…
Was there a Silk Road
Is the 'Silk Road' a meaningful term? Is it being used simply to provide a historical legitimacy for our preoccupation with the dichotomy of east and west, the rising power oflndia and China and the waning of Europe, and our ambivalence towards globalisation? If it ever had any descriptive or analytic force for scholarship, is this now lost and should we discard the term entirely in our scholarly discourse as misleading at best and leave it for t…
Stein's Silk Road Legacy Revisited
An account of the four expeditions to Chinese Central Asia made at the beginning of the twentieth century by the Hungarian scholar, Aurel Stein; his discoveries and excavations in the ancient cities of the Silk Road, including the famous cache of scrolls he found at Dunhuang. The second part of the article covers the present day activities of the International Dunhuang Project and an expedition made in 2008 to retrace Stein's footsteps and replic…
Life along the Silk Road
In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history and remains the only history of the Silk Road to reconstruct the route through the personal experiences of travelers. In the…
On the Silk Road
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas
Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road , Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, …
Stein, Marc Aurel
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways…
Fashion on the Silk Roads, 500–1300
4000 embroidered qabā’s, 4000 ridā’s of silk lined with sable, mink and other furs, 10000 qamīses and ghilālas, 10000 khaftāns, 2000 pair of sirwal of different kinds, 4000 imāmas, 1000 hoods, 1000 capes of different kinds, 5000 kerchiefs of different kinds, 1000 special suits of armour, 50000 ordinary suits of armour, 10000 helmets, 4000 pair of khuff, most lined with sable, mink, and other furs, 4000 pair of jawrab. 1
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