Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Kinesis versus Stasis, Interaction versus Independent Invention 1
5. 1. Beyond Modernocentrism: Toward Fresh Visions of the Global Past 17
6. 2. The Trans-Eurasian Exchange: The Prehistory of Chinese Relations with the West 30
7. 3. The Queen Mother of the West: A Study of the Influence of Western Prototypes on the Iconography of the Taoist Deity 62
8. 4. Natural History and Cultural History: The Circulation of Hunting Leopards in Eurasia, Seventh–Seventeenth Centuries 116
9. 5. Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Turks and the Shaping of the Turkic Peoples 136
10. 6. Early Loan Words in Western Central Asia: Indicators of Substrate Populations, Migrations, and Trade Relations 158
11. 7. Textiles as a Medium of Exchange in Third Millennium B.C.E. Western Asia 191
12. 8. Cultural and Political Control in North China: Style and Use of the Bronzes of Yan at Liulihe during the Early Western Zhou 215
13. 9. Biological Evidence for Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Voyages 238
14. Contributors 299
15. Index 301