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Dear Colleagues, Please forgive the mass email and the duplication if you subscribe to H-Asia. As editors, Helen Wang and I are delighted to inform you that JRAS has just published the Textiles as Money on the Silk Road issue. It is possible now -- but not for long -- to download the entire issue for free. The links are below. Allow us also to apologize to Prof. Arakawa Masaharu, whose name is misspelled in the Table of Contents below. Valerie Hansen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Dwyer" <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 3:18 AM Subject: H-ASIA: TOC Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Volume 23 - Issue 02 - 2013 Special Issue: Textiles as money on the Silk Road H-ASIA July 25, 2013 TOC Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Volume 23 - Issue 02 - 2013 Special Issue: Textiles as money on the Silk Road *********** From: Martine Walsh <mwalsh@CAMBRIDGE.ORG> Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Volume 23 - Issue 02 - 2013 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=JRA&volumeId=23&seriesId=3&issueId=02&etoc=Y Textiles as Money on the Silk Road Sarah Ansari Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000321 ____________________________________ Acknowledgements Helen Wang, Valerie Hansen Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 151 - 152 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000102 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000102 ____________________________________ Miscellaneous Conventions Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 153 - 153 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000114 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000114 ____________________________________ Introduction Introduction VALERIE HANSEN, HELEN WANG Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 155 - 163 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000126 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000126 ____________________________________ Research Articles Textiles as Money on the Silk Road? HELEN WANG Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 165 - 174 doi:10.1017/S135618631300014X Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S135618631300014X ____________________________________ Determining the Value of Textiles in the Tang Dynasty In Memory of Professor Denis Twitchett (1925?2006) ANGELA SHENG Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 175 - 195 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000151 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000151 ____________________________________ Reconciling Excavated Textiles with Contemporary Documentary Evidence: a Closer Look at the Finds from a Sixth-Century Tomb at Astana FENG ZHAO, LE WANG Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 197 - 221 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000163 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000163 ____________________________________ Managing a Multicurrency System in Tang China: The View from the Centre CHANG XU, HELEN WANG Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 223 - 244 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000175 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000175 ____________________________________ The Transportation of Tax Textiles to the North-West as part of the Tang-Dynasty Military Shipment System MASAHIRO ARAKAWA, VALERIE HANSEN Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 245 - 261 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000187 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000187 ____________________________________ A Study of the Tang Dynasty Tax Textiles (Yongdiao Bu) from Turfan BINGHUA WANG, HELEN WANG Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 263 - 280 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000199 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000199 ____________________________________ How the Residents of Turfan used Textiles as Money, 273?796 ce VALERIE HANSEN, XINJIANG RONG Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 281 - 305 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000205 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000205 ____________________________________ Were Textiles used as Money in Khotan in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries? QING DUAN, HELEN WANG Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 307 - 325 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000217 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000217 ____________________________________ The Demise of Silk on the Silk Road: Textiles as Money at Dunhuang from the Late Eighth Century to the Thirteenth Century ERIC TROMBERT Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 327 - 347 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000229 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000229 ____________________________________ Glossary of Textile Terminology (Based on the Documents from Dunhuang and Turfan) FENG ZHAO, LE WANG Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 349 - 387 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000291 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000291 ____________________________________ Erratum Book Review: Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan. III: Plates. Studies in the Khalili Collection, Vol. 3. CIIr. Pt. 2, Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. 4, Bactrian. By Nicholas Sims-Williams. pp. 270. Oxford, The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 2012./Nicholas Sims-Williams. Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan I: Legal and Economic Documents (revised edition). Studies in the Khalili Collection, vol. 3. CIIr. Pt. 2, Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. 4, Bactrian. By Nicholas Sims-Williams. pp. 171. Oxford, The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 2012.?ERRATUM Saloumeh Gholami Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23, Issue 02 - Textiles as Money on the Silk Road, April 2013, pp 389 - 396 doi:10.1017/S1356186313000254 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19th July 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186313000254 ****************************************************************** To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/ -- Linda Dwyer