Silk Roads, Steppe Roads

An innovative study of medieval Chinese tombs that provides new insights into the history of Eurasian cultural contact and exchangeSilk Roads, Steppe Roads takes the reader on a journey to three sites in northwestern China and Mongolia to investigate medieval Chinese tombs containing evidence of Eastern Eurasian cultural contacts and exchanges. The construction, artifacts, and texts on paper and stone found at these tombs of the Sui (581–618) and early Tang (618–907) dynasties reveal glimpses of