{"product_id":"silk-roads-steppe-roads-jonathan-karam-skaff-9780691176987","title":"Silk Roads, Steppe Roads: History Unearthed from the Tombs of Medieval China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn innovative study of medieval Chinese tombs that provides new insights into the history of Eurasian cultural contact and exchange\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilk Roads, Steppe Roads \u003c\/i\u003etakes 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 people, rituals, and objects that were in motion on the Silk and Steppe roads until being laid to rest over a millennium ago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJonathan Karam Skaff shows how the major transit hubs of the Silk and Steppe roads were particularly active sites of cultural contestation, experimentation, and mutual influence that had an impact on the historical development of China and Inner Asia. Challenging the idealized image of the Silk Road, he also examines travel permits and sales contracts that document the trade of enslaved people over the route. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInnovatively drawing on both textual and archaeological sources, \u003ci\u003eSilk Roads, Steppe Roads\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Eurasian peoples, despite believing their societies to be unique, spun overlapping and entangled webs of culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Karam Skaff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691176981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691176987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.20d","brand":"Jonathan Karam Skaff","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852654391551,"sku":"9780691176987","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/silk-roads-steppe-roads-jonathan-karam-skaff-9780691176987","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}