Table of contents
Gościwit Malinowski, Aleksander Paroń, Bartłomiej Sz. Szmoniewski
Introduction I.Silk Road and its Cultural Influence
Gościwit Malinowski
Origin of the name Seres
Svetlana Sharapova
Beyond the Silk Road: cultural identity of the Iron Age forest-steppe population
of the Trans-Urals and Western Siberia
Bartłomiej Sz. Szmoniewski
The Byzantine coins on the Silk Road - some comments
II.China and West: Artistic Inspirations
Hanna Urbańska
Between India and China. Some stories about the moon hare
Marta Steiner
Reading of traditional Chinese theatre (xiqu) in Western culture
III. Perceiving of the other
Aleksander Paroń
The picture of the Scythians in History by Herodotus and the Xiongnu in Shiji
by Sima Qian. An attempt at comparison
Sergey A. Yatsenko
Sogdian Costume in Chinese and Sogdian Art of the 6th-8th centuries IV.Materials from the Maiachnyi Bugor Cemetery, Russia
Anna A. Mamonova, Anastasia V. Savelwa
Dress complex of the 13th-14th centuries A.D. from burial 51 of the Maiachnyi
Bugor II cemetery in the Astrakhan region
Olga Orfinskaya, 0lga Lantratova
Female costume of the Golden Horde time from burial 93 of the Maiachnyi Bugor II
cemetery in the Astrakhan region
Vadim G. Rudakw, Tatyana V. Sidorova
Two rich female burials of the Golden Horde epoch in the Maiachnyi Bugor cemetery
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