HIST5510 Special Topics in Cultural History: The Silk Roads and Cultural: Interactions Between China and the Western Worlds

This course would explore the origin, development and influence of the world known Silk Road which connected Chang’an, the capital in Han and Tang dynasty with countries in the Middle East and beyond via Xinjiang and Central Asia, as well as the Maritime Silk Road that Linked Quanzhou and Guangzhou with Southeast Asia, the Middle East and East Africa, with emphasis on the cultural collision and interflow between China and these foreign countries.

Students would be able to acquire understanding as well as foster interest in the origin, development and influence of the world known Silk Road which connected Changan, the capital in Han and Tang dynasty with countries in the Middle East and beyond via Xinjiang and Central Asia, as well as the Maritime Silk Road that linked Quanzhou and Guangzhou with Southeast Asia, the Middle East, East Africa and Europe. Emphasis of this Course would be on the important role these two Silk Roads played in facilitating cultural and religious interactions between China and the Western worlds from the second century BCE to the 19th century.

1. Introduction: Silk Road and China before Qing and Han

Valerie Hansen, Introduction in The Silk Road (New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 3-24.
2. The expedition of Zhang Qiang: The background and the shaping of Silk Road

馮惠民著：《張騫通西域》（北京：中華書局，1979 年版），頁2-33 。
3. Guangdong and trading: the development of cultural and trading in the maritime Silk Road from Han to Tang

黃啟臣主編：《廣東海上絲綢之路史》（廣州：廣東經濟出版社，2003 年版） ，頁57-104。
4. The development of Buddhist Art: From Gandhāra, Dunhuang to Longmen Grottes I

董玉祥著：《從印度到中國：石窟藝術的產生與東傳》（台北：藝術家出版社，2012 年版），第二章。
5. The development of Buddhist Art: From Gandhāra, Dunhuang to Longmen Grottes II

董玉祥著：《從印度到中國：石窟藝術的產生與東傳》（台北：藝術家出版社，2012 年版），第六章。
6. Xuanxang, Silk Roand and the The Records of the Western Regions

〈校注大唐西域記-前言〉，（唐）玄奘、辯機著；季羨林等校注：《大唐西域記校注》（北京：中華書局，1985 年版）
7. Cultural and Trading in Silk Road: Sogdians in Tang I

榮新江著：《中古中國與粟特文明》（北京：三聯書店，2014 年版） ，第一篇。
8. Cultural and Trading in Silk Road: Sogdiana in Tang II

Valerie Hansen, Introduction in The Silk Road (New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 113-139.
9. The coming of new religions in Tang: Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism and Christianity I

王媛媛著：《從波斯到中國：摩尼教在中亞和中國的傳播》（北京：中華書局，2012 年版） ，第二節：西域摩尼教。
10. The coming of new religions in Tang: Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism and Christianity II

Jenny Rose, An Introduction to Zoroastrianism (London, New York, L.B. Tauris, 2017) ，Chapter 5: The Zoroastrians of Central Asia.
11. Maritime Silk Road: Quanzhou in Song and Yuan I

李玉昆著：《泉州海外交通史略》（廈門：廈門大學出版社，1995 年版），頁14-37。
12. Maritime Silk Road: Quanzhou in Song and Yuan II

李玉昆著：《泉州海外交通史略》（廈門：廈門大學出版社，1995 年版，頁45-104。
13. The bridge of East and West in Qing: Thirteen Hong in Guangzhou

黃啟臣主編：《廣東海上絲綢之路史》（廣州：廣東經濟出版社，2003 年版） ，第八章，頁484-628。

Tutorial 40%
Final Report 60%

Recommended readings:
Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road (New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017)
雍際春著：《絲綢之路歷史沿革》（西安：三秦出版社，2015 年版）
顧澗清等著：《廣東海上絲綢之路》（廣州：廣東人民出版社，2008 年版）
榮新江著：《絲綢之路與東西文化交流》（北京：北京大學出版社，2015 年版）
馮惠民著：《張騫通西域》（北京：中華書局，1979 年版）
顧澗清等著：《廣東海上絲綢之路》（廣州：廣東人民出版社，2008 年版）
黃啟臣主編：《廣東海上絲綢之路史》（廣州：廣東經濟出版社，2003 年版）
董玉祥著：《從印度到中國：石窟藝術的產生與東傳》（台北：藝術家出版社，2012 年版）
閻文儒著：《中國石窟藝術總論》（天津：天津古籍出版社，1997 年版）
陳凌、馬健合著：《絲綢之路的宗教遺存》（西安：三秦出版社，2015 年版）
（唐）玄奘、辯機著；季羨林等校注：《大唐西域記校注》（北京：中華書局，1985 年版）
畢波著：《中古中國的粟特胡人：以長安為中心》（北京：中國人民大學出版社，2011 年版）
榮新江著：《中古中國與粟特文明》（北京：三聯書店，2014 年版）
Jenny Rose, An Introduction to Zoroastrianism (London, New York, L.B. Tauris, 2017)
王媛媛著：《從波斯到中國：摩尼教在中亞和中國的傳播》（北京：中華書局，2012 年版）
陳凌、莫陽合著：《絲綢之路與古代東西方世界的物質文化文流》（西安：三秦出版社，2015 年版）
李玉昆著：《泉州海外交通史略》（廈門：廈門大學出版社，1995 年版）
陳支平、蕭惠中主編：《海上絲綢之路與泉港海國文明》（廈門：廈門大學出版社，2015 年版）
泉州市人民政府編：《泉州港與海上絲綢之路》（北京：中國社會科學出版社，2002 年版）
李冀平、朱學群、王連茂合編：《泉州文化與海上絲綢之路》（北京：社會科學文獻出版社，2007 年版）
章文欽著：《廣東十三行與早期中英關係》（廣州：廣東經濟出版社，2009 年版）
《廣州十三行與清代中外關係國際學術研討會論文集》（廣州：廣州大學十三行研究中心，2011 年版）
覃波、李炳編著：《帝國商行：廣州十三行》（北京：九州出版社，2007 年版）

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