Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China Gansu and Ningxia Provinces, Fourth-Seventh Century Book

	Foreword	6
	Statement	8
	Statement	9
	Statement	10
	Preface	11
	Time Line/Chinese Chronology	12
	Introduction: Monks, Merchants, and Nomads in Northwest China, Fourth-Seventh Century	15
Pt. I	Setting the Stage
1	The Silk Road in Gansu and Ningxia	20
2	The Unbroken Thread: Nomads in China	50
3	Encounters with Nomads	54
Pt. II	Buddhist Monks: Transmission and Translation
4	Buddhist Art in Northwest China	118
5	Gandhara in Gansu	210
Pt. III	Foreign Merchants: From Colonists to Chinese Officials
6	The Merchant Empire of the Sogdians	220
7	The Sogdians in Their Homeland	230
8	Sogdians in Northwest China	238
9	Coins and the Silk Road	270
Pt. IV	Conclusion
10	Cosmopolitanism and the Tang	292
	Glossary	331
	Bibliography	332
	Index	349