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Stewart Gordon 出版社: Da Capo Press 副标题: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "Riches of the "East" 出版年: 2007-12-4 页数: 240 定价: USD 26.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780306815560
How Asia's great civilization spread when its traveling merchants, scholars, and holy men brought their shining civilization to Europe's Dark Ages. While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of religious, commercial, and...
How Asia's great civilization spread when its traveling merchants, scholars, and holy men brought their shining civilization to Europe's Dark Ages. While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of religious, commercial, and intellectual connections, the different regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with commerce, international diplomacy, and the brisk exchange of ideas. Stewart Gordon has fashioned a fascinating and unique look at Asia from A.D. 700 to 1500, a time when Asia was the world, by describing the personal journeys of Asia's many travelers--the merchants who traded spices along the Silk Road, the apothecaries who exchanged medicine and knowledge from China to the Middle East, and the philosophers and holy men who crossed continents to explore and exchange ideas, books, science, and culture.
书名原文为: 【When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the Riches of the East】 字面翻译是: 《当亚洲即世界——创造东方财富的行旅商贾、学者、武士、僧侣》 从这标题就知道,作者完全没有打算要系统地讲述亚洲史,只...
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