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This volume is about the long-neglected, but decisive influence of Uygur patrons on Dunhuang art in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Through an insightful intr
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Japan on the Silk Road provides for the first time the historical background indispensable for understanding Japan's current perspectives and policies in the va