I am pleased to announce the publication of the new
annual volume of THE SILK ROAD, the journal of the Silkroad Foundation.
Volume 15 (2017) covers a range of material and includes
a generous array of images. Read about ancient fortresses in the Wakhan region
of Afghanistan, about caravanserais in the Mongol Golden Horde, and about
discoveries at a Turkic fortress in Kazakhstan. Read here new analysis of the
use of silver coins in Gaochang along the Northern Silk Road and articles about
cross-cultural exchange: a ruler in Egypt cognizant of his Central Asian
heritage; items in museum collections connected with the “migration” of
centaurs across Asia, the connections of Unified Silla Korea with the West, and
the deposit in a museum in the Urals of a relic from Timurid Samarkand. The
Chingissid legacy in post-Mongol East Asia is the subject of a fresh
examination. Photo essays cover Sasanian reliefs in Iran, the legacy of the
Liao, and the importance of water across the Silk Roads. There are also some
symposia reports and a good many book reviews and notices.
The volume is freely available on line at:
<https://edspace.american.edu/silkroadjournal/wp-content/uploads/sites/984/2018/01/srjournal_v15.pdf>,
or alternatively at:
Print copies, which are sent free of charge to academic
libraries (we cannot accept individual orders), should be in the mail in about
a month. There are still a good many back numbers available on request to
libraries which may have gaps in their sets.
Please note the following important changes regarding the
future of the journal:
This is the final volume edited by the undersigned. The
new editor is Prof. Justin Jacobs of American University in Washington, D.C.
All submissions and correspondence regarding future numbers of the journal
should be addressed to him. His e-mail is: <jjacobs@american.edu>.
Professor Jacobs has already created a new website for
the journal <https://edspace.american.edu/silkroadjournal/>
and posted there all the back numbers of it, including individual files for
every article. For the time being, the old website for the journal at the
Silkroad Foundation will remain in place, but all new volumes will be posted
only to the new website, along with, we expect, links to various supplementary
materials connected with the journal. Volume 15 (2017) is the last one which is
also being printed in hard copy. After that, the journal will be only an
open-access on-line publication.
Daniel Waugh
University of Washington (Seattle)
Editor (emeritus)
The Silk Road
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