Mapping Civilizations Across Eurasia

• Autore: Chang H. K
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, , 2024; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (476 pages)
• Disciplina: 950; 940
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Mapping Civilizations -- The Genes Behind Civilization -- The Course of Civilization's Development -- Modules of Civilization -- Interactions Between Civilizations -- Current Dilemmas -- The Outlook for Civilization -- Part II Studies on Civilization -- 2 From Movable Type to the World Wide Web -- Recollections in the Long River of Time -- An Advanced Society -- The Meteoric Rise of Arabian Civilization -- Civilizations that Influenced the World -- Super-Stable Structure -- Western Science Migrates East -- The I Ching and Microelectronics -- The C++ Project -- In Today's World -- 3 Speaking of Mesopotamia -- The Cradle of Civilization -- Heirs to Ancient Civilizations -- Complex Role of the British -- Iraq and Syria Today -- 4 My Take on the Middle East -- What Is the "Greater Middle East"? -- Decoding the Region's History of Violent Conflict -- Islamic Tradition -- The Development Dilemma and Democracy's Double-Edged Sword -- 5 Cultural Conflict and Integration Throughout History -- Cultural Integration: From Nomadic Society to Agrarian Society -- Inclusiveness: The Root of the Chinese Nation's Vitality -- Years: Paper's Long March to the West -- Kaifeng and Baghdad: Concurrent Global Cultural Centers -- 6 Tracing the Footsteps and Influence of Xuanzang and Ibn Battuta -- 7 My Views on Orientology, Area Studies and Silk Road Research -- Orientology: A Retrospective -- Overview of Area Studies -- Placing Our Hopes in Silk Road Exploration and Research -- Part III Silk Road -- 8 Cultural Interaction Along the Silk Road -- Five Silk Road Trailblazers -- Faith and Worship -- 9 The New Silk Road: Strategic Thinking -- Sea Power, Terrestrial Power and Geopolitics -- New Era, New Power, New Reasoning -- Silk Road Rules of Conduct -- 10 Frankincense, Oil and Geopolitics -- The 2015 Doha Forum. ; Frankincense and Oil -- Actions of the Colonialists -- Relations Between Middle Eastern Oil-Producing Countries -- The War in Iraq and Oil Prices -- Pax Americana and New Geopolitics -- Future Energy Demands -- Whither the Middle East? -- 11 China and Pakistan: A Historical View -- The Indus Valley Figurines: Who Are We? -- The Gandhara Statues: We Belong to Everyone -- Cheng He and Chen Cheng: We Are Friends from Afar -- Babur and Akbar: We Bestow Order and Harmony -- Karakoram Mountains: We Are Not Your Barriers -- The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: We Bring Prosperity -- 12 Tempest in Eurasia: Russia, Ukraine and Georgia -- Prelude to the Russo-Ukrainian War -- Shared Roots -- Turkic, Norman, Slavic and Mongolian Peoples -- The Grand Principality of Moscow and the Kipchak, Crimean and Kazan Khanates -- Proud but Isolated Georgia -- Ukraine's Destiny -- Pawns in a Strategic Game: Ukraine and Georgia -- Tough but Vulnerable -- Part IV Survey of Greater Central Asia -- 13 Greater Central Asia and the New Silk Road -- What Constitutes "Greater Central Asia"? -- Three Environments, Three Cultures -- Turbulent Times Along the Silk Road -- 14 Migration of Populations Within Greater Central Asia -- Clues to Understanding Greater Central Asia -- The Warp and Weft of History -- 4,500-2,300 Years Ago: Indo-European Tribes Migrate Eastward in Four Waves -- Second Century BCE to Eighth Century CE: Altaic Tribes Migrate from East to West in Three Waves -- Eighth-Twentieth Centuries: Successive Invasions by Arabs, Mongols, and Russians -- 15 Greater Central Asia: A Cultural Mosaic -- Herding Sheep by Lake Baikal -- History of Lake Baikal -- Greater Central Asia as Seen from Southern Gansu and the Hexi Corridor -- Scientists and "Father of Algebra" -- Lahore: Sights and Thoughts -- Central and Southern Asia: Like "Lips and Teeth" -- The Sogdian Homeland. ; Tradition and Modern: Kazakhstan's Old and New Capital -- 16 My Journeys to Xinjiang: From Dream to Reality -- Hami Wheat and "Hami Melon" -- Turpan: Ancient Documents, Origins of Its People -- Urumqi's Erdaoqiao and an Elderly Turkic Language Scholar -- Korla's Hong Konger -- Kucha's Murals and Pipa Tunes -- Khotan: Gangzi Rou and Donkey-Powered Cart -- Kashgar: Cultural and Religious Status -- Yining: Nomads and Border Town -- Altay: Tuva and an Eight-Year-Old Girl -- Part V Portrait of India -- 17 Experiencing Emerging India -- Indian Affinities -- Bangalore and Soft Power -- Closed-Door Brainstorming Session in Goa -- Calcutta and Vestiges of the British Raj -- 18 Getting Acquainted with the Indian Elephant -- Ethnicities and Tongues -- Rebellion, Independence, Constitution -- Religious Society, Secular Nation -- Democracy, Rule of Law, Corruption and Electoral Bribery -- Great Wealth, Extreme Poverty and Tardy Justice -- Tradition vs. Westernization: The Sole Option? -- 19 India's "Special Administrative Region"-Pondicherry -- Tamil Nadu's Ancient Tongue -- Snapshot of Chennai -- Britain and France Battle for India -- India's Union Territory -- Culture and Customs of Pondicherry -- 20 India's Take on "Belt and Road" -- Ancient Civilization, Massive Population, Advantageous Geography -- India's Early Maritime Navigation -- The Indian Ocean: An Inland Arab Sea -- Maritime and Land-Based Trade Under the Mongols -- The Indian Ocean After the Sixteenth Century -- Belt and Road: But How Do the Indians See It? -- Three Sorts of Reactions -- Tenor of Sino-Indian Relations -- May Each Party's Beauty Shine Forth -- Part VI Persian Cultural Sphere -- 21 Early Civilizations on the Iranian Plateau -- Geography and Human Environment -- Three Early Civilizations -- Aryans: Masters of Iran -- The Median and Persian Kingdoms -- The Achaemenid Empire. ; Grecian Influence -- 22 Renascence of Persian Culture -- Hellenization and Persianization -- The Prophet Born Smiling -- Parthian Empire: Founded on Horseback -- Persia Pushes Back Against the Romans -- Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism Under the Sassanids -- Anushirvan and the Sassanian Renascence -- 23 Islam and the Invaders -- Persia: Islamization and Arabization -- Persianization of Islam -- Islamic Civilization: The Perso-Arabic Version -- The Persians Establish Regional Regimes -- Invasion by Turkic Peoples and Mongols -- The Timurid Empire and Islamic Renaissance -- 24 Persian Poetry and Painting -- Persian Cultural Awareness: Inspired by Invaders -- Hallmarks and Evolution of Persian Four-line Verse -- Sufi Poetry: Intoxicated by Romance -- From Bas-Reliefs to Persian Miniatures -- Miniature Painting Guide: My Name Is Red -- 25 Shia Islam and the Safavid Dynasty -- Sufism and Sufi Orders -- Turkmen Military Alliances and the Safavids' "Red Heads" -- Shah Abbas the Great -- 26 Persian Civilization and Iran's Modernization -- The Qajar Dynasty Reforms -- The Pahlavi Dynasty -- The White Revolution -- Revolution and Modernization, Cleric-Style -- Part VII Caucasus -- 27 Ethnographic Museum on the Border Between Europe and Asia -- The Caucasus: Geography and Culture with a Difference -- A Virtual Museum of Peoples and Tongues -- 28 Musical Chairs in the Caucasus -- The Tujüe Make Their Entrance -- The Persian Renaissance -- The Russian Long-term Strategy -- 29 North Caucasus: Russia's Southern Frontier -- Unique Peoples of the North Caucasus -- Circassian Traumas -- Crimean War: Causes and Consequences -- Soviet Era: Policy Toward North Caucasus -- The North Caucasus after the Second Chechen War -- 30 The Post-Soviet South Caucasus -- Georgia and its "European Complex" -- Azerbaijan and Black Gold -- Armenia and a Twentieth-Century Massacre. ; Awkward Transcaucasia -- 31 South Caucasus: International Machinations -- Maneuvers of the Turks, Iranians and Russians -- What the United States, EU and Russia May Envision -- Part VIII Turkish March -- 32 Westward Migration of the Turkic-speaking People -- From the Yenisei River to the Danube (552-1529) -- From Principality to Empire (1299-1566) -- From Brave Armies to Conniving Courtiers (1566-1699) -- 33 The Road to Republicanism -- From "Study the Barbarians" to "Reform and Adjustment" (1699-1839) -- From Reform to Revolution (1839-1908) -- Constitutional Monarchy to Republic (1908-1923) -- 34 Toward a Modern Republic -- A Fitting Hero for His Era (1919-1938) -- The Atatürk Era-without Kemal Atatürk (1938-1980) -- Geopolitics and Changes in Social Structure (1980-2014) -- 35 European Turkey: The Bosphorus and Edirne -- Living in Both Europe and Asia -- A Visit to Architect Sinan's Chef-d'oeuvre -- 36 Anatolian Turkey: Trabzon and Konya -- Greek Church, Tea Plants and a Wedding Party -- Checking out Rumi's Roots -- 37 Emergence of Neo-Ottomanism -- Part IX Conclusions -- 38 The Ancient Silk Road: "Geography as Destiny" -- Emerging from Africa, Surveying the World -- West Asia: Cradle of the Agricultural Revolution -- Nomadic Commerce and the Spread of Civilization -- Silk, Spices and Empire Building -- Linking Europe and Asia by Land and Sea -- Pax Mongolica: The Ultimate Land-based Power -- 39 The New Silk Road: Eurasia's Historical Destiny -- Maritime Power and the Rise of Western Europe -- The Industrial Revolution and Colonial Empires -- World War I and the American Surge -- World War II and American Hegemony -- The New Silk Road: Reliant Upon the East -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mapping Civilizations Across Eurasia
• ISBN: 981-9976-41-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910831500703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II