Cultural Oasis: Silk Road Languages and Western Regions Civilization

Author: Niu Rujie
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The oases along the Silk Road are fertile lands with profound historical and cultural heritage. Despite their seemingly barren and desolate appearance, they deeply conceal the cultural and historical roots that span east and west and connect past and present. They also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of the development of grassland culture into oasis civilization. This book aims to reconstruct the cultural and historical landscape of the Silk Road oases using linguistic and documentary materials discovered along the Silk Road, attempting to find the multifaceted features of a culturally diverse yet unified oasis through comparative analysis of rich multilingual and multicultural sources. It seeks to present the multidimensional aspects of the Western Regions civilization through an integrated analysis of history and reality, culture and society.