Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture

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Michelle C. Wang Ryan Richard Overbey

Beyond the Silk and Book Roads

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Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture

Michelle C. Wang, Ryan Richard Overbey

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Brill
29 November 2023

Asian history; Buddhism; Material culture

Series: Studies on East Asian Religions

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.

Edited by: Michelle C. Wang, Ryan Richard Overbey
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 11
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 918g
ISBN: 9789004685550
ISBN 10: 9004685553
Series: Studies on East Asian Religions
Pages: 430
Publication Date: 29 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Ryan Richard Overbey and Michelle C. Wang part 1: Textual Production and Circulation 1 Chinese Bamboo Slips Unearthed Abroad and the Book Road in East Asia: On the Bamboo Slips of the Analects Ge Jiyong 葛繼勇 2 Vowing the Buddhist Canon along the Silk Road(s): A Study of Colophons to Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Japan George A. Keyworth 3 The Transmission of Medieval Chinese Paintings to Japan: Paintings on the “Book Road” and Their Reception Ding Li 丁莉 4 A Gandhāran among the Türks: Buddhist Texts and Travels in the Biographies of *Dhyānagupta (528–605) Ryan Richard Overbey 5 The Circulation of Texts between Dunhuang and Other Regions as Viewed from the Dunhuang Manuscripts Hao Chunwen 郝春文 and Wu Shaowei 武紹衛 part 2: Centers and Peripheries 6 The Khotanese and Tibetan Transmission of the Narrative of the Destruction of the Dharma in the Kingdom of Kauśāmbī II: Discussion Liu Yi 劉屹 7 An Epistolary Buddhist Network between Lhasa and Beijing in the 1740s Lan Wu 烏蘭 8 Images of Silk along the Silk Roads: Dunhuang Mural Paintings and Tang Funerary Figurines Sha Wutian 沙武田 9 Birds of a Feather: Mahāmāyūrī between Khotan and Dunhuang Michelle C. Wang 10 White Silk, Gold Thread, Frosted Temples, and Fat Faces: The Radiating Branches of Zhuzhici, ca. 1700–1900 Stephen Roddy Index

Michelle C. Wang is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Georgetown University. A specialist in the Buddhist and silk road art of northwestern China, she has published on maṇḍalas, art and ritual, miracle tales, and text and image. Ryan Richard Overbey serves as the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at Skidmore College and studies the intellectual and ritual history of Buddhism, with particular focus on early medieval Buddhist spells and ritual manuals.

Reviews for Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture

""(...) the articles in this beautifully illustrated book show that knowledge and materiality were closely intertwined in the movement of books and paintings across premodern Eurasia. Scholars will need to emulate contributors of this book in combining philological, historical, and art historical approaches if they intend to explore the full richness of the movements of things and ideas on the Silk/Book Road."" Xin Wen, Princeton University, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 10, no. 1 (2025): 259-262. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mns.2025.a965567. ""This book represents a groundbreaking effort to reimagine the networks of exchange and material culture that have shaped human interactions across regions and civilizations. Through a collection of diverse research manuscripts contributed by leading scholars in the field, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate web of connections that transcended the traditional Silk Road and the transmission of texts along the Book Road."" - Religious Studies Review (50/2 2024)