Aurel Stein on the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield's 2004 study from British Museum Press, is a scholarly account of archaeologist Aurel Stein's early twentieth century expeditions along the Silk Road, by a specialist in Silk Road studies associated with the British Library's own International Dunhuang Programme. Its strength is direct institutional familiarity with the manuscripts and artifacts Stein's expeditions recovered, many of which the British Museum and British Library still hold. Its limit is that it centers Stein's own expeditions and perspective; independent assessments of the colonial-era circumstances of his removals from China are worth reading alongside it.
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Susan Whitfield's Aurel Stein on the Silk Road, published by British Museum Press in 2004, the top tier reflecting a scholarly account by a specialist in Silk Road studies with direct institutional familiarity with the manuscripts and artifacts Stein's expeditions recovered. Its limit is that it centers Stein's own expeditions and perspective; independent assessments of the colonial-era circumstances of his removals from China are worth reading alongside it. NotesScholarly study of Aurel Stein's expeditions on the Silk Road, British Museum Press, 2004.
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AuthorSusan Whitfield
PublisherBritish Museum Press
Publication Year2004
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