内容简介
历史上的丝绸之路横跨欧、亚、非三大洲，穿越了沙漠、草原、高山和江河湖海，数不尽的物质和文化在其中诞生，形成了璀璨的丝路文明。作者从中拣选了十件古物，将它们的故事娓娓道来，不仅展现了物质的工艺和形制、主题与纹饰，也讲述了人与物之间错综复杂的联系：是谁创造了物质？谁带着它们跨越山河？谁将它们视为珍宝、奉为圣物？它们被谁遗弃，又被谁从层层黄土中发掘出来……物质与其背后的人和社会相互影响，不同的文化彼此碰撞、交融，经济、制度、技术和思想在传播中不断发展和演变，这一切都融汇成了一部生动有形的丝路文明史。
作者简介······
魏泓（Susan Whitfield），曾任大英图书馆国际敦煌项目（International Dunhuang Project，简称IDP）负责人，现为东安格利亚大学教授，过去三十年一直致力于研究丝绸之路的历史、艺术、宗教、物质和文化，著有《丝绸之路：十二种唐朝人生》（Life along the Silk Road）、《丝绸之路上的斯坦因》（Aurel Stein on the Silk Road）等作品。
Content introduction
In history, the Silk Road spanned the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, traversing deserts, grasslands, mountains, rivers, lakes and seas. Countless materials and cultures were born in the Silk Road, forming a splendid Silk Road civilization. The author selects ten ancient objects and tells their stories, showing not only the craft and shape of matter, themes and patterns, but also the intricate connections between people and things: who created matter? Who carries them across the mountains and rivers? Who regards them as treasures and sacred objects? Who abandoned them, and who dug them out of layers of loess... Materials interact with the people and society behind them, different cultures collide and blend with each other, and the economy, system, technology and ideas continue to develop and evolve in communication, all of which are integrated into a vivid and tangible history of Silk Road civilization.
About the author
Susan Whitfield, former director of the International Dunhuang Project (IDP) at the British Library and now a professor at the University of East Anglia, has spent the past three decades studying the history, art, religion, material and culture of the Silk Road. He is the author of "Life along the Silk Road: Twelve Tang Lives" and "Aurel Stein on the Silk Road."
