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Life Along the Silk Road
by Susan Whitfield
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- 2001
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- 253 PAGES
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With insight, scholarship and dramatic flair, Susan Whitfield recounts the lives of ten individuals on the ancient Silk Road. Spanning the eighth to tenth centuries, she draws on surviving manuscripts and firsthand accounts in this vivid, entertaining portrait of everyday life in China and Central Asia. Whitfield is director of the International Dunhuang Project.
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