Foreword / Vishaka N. Desai
Statement / Maurice R. Greenberg and Nicholas Platt
Statement / Douglas A. Warner and William B. Harrison
Monks, merchants, and nomads in Northwest China, fourth-seventh century / Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner
The Silk Road in Gansu and Ningxia / Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner
The unbroken thread: nomads in China / Annette L. Juliano
Encounters with nomads / Albert E. Dien
Buddhist art in Northwest China / Annette L. Juliano
Gandhara in Gansu / Chen Bingying
The merchant empire of the Sogdians / Judith A. Lerner
The Sogdians in their homeland / Boris I. Marshak
Sogdians in Northwest China / Luo Feng
Coins and the Silk Road / Michael Alram
Cosmopolitanism and the Tang / Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner.
