... University Yuan Fuli Peking University 1911 revolution Yang Zengxin Aurel Stein Xinjiang archaeology Langdon Warner In the realm of art and antiquities, the recipe for conflict is simple. When two parties regard the same object as priceless, neither negotiation nor compensation is possible. So long...

...The Conclusion provides an overview of the complex and contested legacy of Western archaeological expeditions undertaken in China by scholars such as Aurel Stein and Paul Pelliot. It finds that misinformation has given rise to a variety of politicized agendas that recall selective aspects...

...This book provides a new interpretive framework for Western archaeological expeditions along the Silk Road in northwestern China during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By placing the expeditions of Aurel Stein, Paul Pelliot, Sven Hedin, and other explorers back within the original...

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... Columbian Exchange diseases Alexander Edward Gibbon Hermann river silk Smithsonian Institution Aurel Stein trade Washington, DC, in June is as hot as many parts of the silk road, though not as dry as the steppes and deserts at the center of the Eurasian continent, from which mountain massifs block...

... Muscovites Portugal Safavid dynasty Siberia Spain Tokugawa shogunate paper silk Aurel Stein Thousand and One Nights trade Koreans are impressive mountain climbers. Even elderly hikers move fast, heedless of steep rocky terrain or enervating humidity, and seldom stop. They are also professionally...

...This chapter discusses the interest of the west in the history of Central Asia. It explains that central Asia has been studied by many western scholars and explorers, including British archaeologist Aurel Stein and traveller Sir John de Maundeville. Central Asia figured prominently in the days...

... Mongolia throughout the 1920s on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History. The second was the British archaeologist Aurel Stein, who undertook a fourth expedition to Xinjiang in 1930–31 on behalf of Harvard University. Because neither man was willing to accept Chinese oversight of their expedition...