Stewart Gordon, When Asia Was the World
New York: Da Capo Press, December 2007. Hardcover: 228 pages. ISBN: 0306815567.
內容簡介
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.
目 次
Introduction vii
Monasteries and Monarchs: Xuanzang, 1 (20)
618--632 CE
Caliph and Caravan: Ibn Fadlan, 921--922 CE 21 (18)
Philosopher and Physician: Ibn Sina, 39 (18)
1002--1021 CE
Ingots and Artifacts: The Intan Shipwreck, 57 (18)
circa 1000 CE
Pepper and Partnerships: Abraham bin Yiju, 75 (22)
1120--1160 CE
Nobles and Notables: Ibn Battuta, 97 (20)
1325--1356 CE
Treasure and Treaty: Ma Huan, 1413--1431 CE 117(20)
Blood and Salt: Babur, 1494--1526 CE 137(20)
Medicines and Misunderstandings: Tome 157(20)
Pires, 1511--1521 CE
The Asian World: 500--1500 CE 177(16)
Notes 193(22)
Suggested Reading 215(8)
Index 223
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