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Description of  Fu Poetry Along the Silk Roads: Third-Century Chinese Writings on Exotica (East Meets West: East Asia and Its Periphery from 200 BCE to 1600 CE)

This book explores the dissemination of ideas and information on the early silk roads between Europe and China, through the first detailed study of the Sinicization of foreign objects in Chinese poetic writing of the third century CE. Third-century literary developments and the prevailing literary works from that era leave us with an impressive amount of information concerning exotic objects, such as plants, animals, and crafts, and record the cultural exchange between distant peoples whose goods, ideas, and technologies entered China. Read more