Journal and Conference Notices Literature & History of the Western Regions Analysis of the Dating Systems of Nestorian Inscriptions 西域文史 from the Yuan Dynasty in China……….………………… Ma Xiaohe Vol. XII (June 2018) The Turfan Minaret Inscription: A Symbol of Cultural Con - fluence on the Silk Road …………………………........... Mohammad Zhu Yuqi Editor-in-Chief Bagher Vosooghi and Hassan Karimian (tr. Xu Weiyan) Contents Xu Song Materials in the Imperial Cabinet Archive Housed in Fu Ssu-Nien Library ………....................................... Zhu Yuqi Development of the Maritime Route from the Northern and Imagined “Golden Horde” and the Muslim Identity for the Southern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty ......... Zhang Qingjie Volga Tatars’ Nationalism in Modern Russia: Ajaz Ischaki Transportation between Xizhou and Yizhou in the Tang Dy - and His Nationalist Historiography ……………… Zhou Sicheng nasty .................................................................... Meng Xianshi On L iu Bannong’s Dealings with the Central Asiatic Expedi - New Perspective on a Poem Titled Guanbing of Du Fu: Stud - tion of the American Museum of Natural History ……………… ies on the Loyalist Reinforcements from the Western Regions ………………………..................................................... Wang Jiqing in the 2nd year of Qianyuan Era ............................... Wu Yugui The Fr iendship of Huang Wenbi and Ding Daoheng during Huang Wenbi and the Turfan Documents Preserved in the the Northwestern Scientific Expedition…….... Wu Huafeng & Gansu Museum .................................................. Rong Xinjiang Xu Yujuan On the Historical Events concerning the Western Regions Huang Wenbi in around 1949…………………………......… Liu Zifan Recorded in the Newly Unearthed Epigraph of Liu Wenhui ............................................................................ Wang Qingwei Vol. XIII (June 2019) Further Remarks on Official Manuscripts of the Yuan Dy - nasty from Dunhuang .......................................... Dang Baohai Contents Early Spread of the Symbol “ 卐” and Its Original Implication The End Result of Sinicization of Foreign Religions Coming ................................................................................. Liu Xuetang along the Silk Road ……..................................…....... Lin Wushu The Ephedra and Cannabis Discovered in Xinjiang On the Title Holy Spirit of Manicheism ……… Rui Chuanming ................................................................................. Liu Wensuo On Chinese Manichaean Pantheon: Study on Dunhuang, Research on Dagger Sheaths with Four-lobed form Found in Xiapu and Pingnan Documents … Ma Xiaohe & Wang Chuan Xinjiang .................................................................. Lin Lingmei The Book of Zambasta , Candragarbha-sutra and Mahab - A Study of the Chin-strap Excavated from the Tomb M33 of harata : One Junction in Khotanese Buddhism………….... Liu Yi Jiulongshan in Guyuan ........................................ Chen Jingxiu The “Buddha’s Canine Tooth” Brought by F xiàn to China: A Paper Used in the 8th Century Anxi Protectorate, Part I: Reflection on the Respective Records and thǎe Expansion of Some Observations on the Chinese Document Fragments the Hephthalites in the Late 5th Century …………………………… Kept in the Ryukoku University (Japan) Unearthed ………………………………...................................... Ching Chao-jung from Kucha ................... Ching Chao-jung & Enami Kazuyuki The Evolution of the Southern Route of the Silk Road and Punishment in Kharoshthī Documents found in China and the Development of City : Khotan City's Administrative and its Possible Origin ................................................... Jiang Yixiu Social Characteristics before the 10th century ………. Yin Qing The Study of the Age of Blanket Standard in the Monetary The Genealogy Issue of the Uighur Kaghans and the Chinese History of Gaochang District ............................. Pei Chengguo Written Sources of the Tang and Song Periods: From Huaixin Yigän and Čïqan: Kök Türk Titles from Kinship Terms to Baoyi …………………………….................................. Murai Kyoko ………………………........................................................… Chen Ken On the Cities along the Southern Slope of the Tianshan On the Title Gür-khan ……………………………………… Bai Yudong Mountain in the Uighur Time …………............................. Fu Ma The Silk Road 17 (2019): 117–121 117 The Basic Characteristic of Tie in the Tang Dynasty: Focus on Before the Silk Road: the Dunhuang and Turfan Documents …………… Guo Guikun Eurasian Interactions in the First Millennium BC Investigation on the Ancient Documents of the Western Re - Hengstberger International Symposium gions Collected in the Lüshun Museum………………… Ma Junjie Heidelberg A Study on Chen Zhongqi and His Writings on the Western October 28-29, 2019 Regions ……………………........................................... Wu Huafeng Organized by Dr. Lianming Wang, Institute of East Asian Art A Source Study of Mêng-ku Yu-mu Chi ………………. Xu Weiyan History, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Ten Chinese inscriptions from Central Asia, according to the Monday, October 28 estampages of Mr. Ch.-E. Bonin …….......................................... Édouard Chavannes (tr. Tang Chaojun) Welcoming remarks Prof. Dr. Peter Comba, Director of IWH, and Mr. Klaus- Central Asia Recorded in the First Volume of Richthofen’s Georg Hengstberger, Sponsor of the Klaus-Georg and Sigrid China …………………............................................… Tang Xiaofeng Hengstberger Award Turpan Expedition of 1909 Concise Preliminary Keynote speech Report ........... S. F. Oldenburg (tr. Yang Juntao & Li Xindong) The Steppe, the Mountains, the Arc and Central China, In - Language and Ethnicity: A Study of Arbun Saiin’s teractions and Resistance Sibe/Manchu Identity Formation ………………….. Kam Tak-sing Prof. Dr. Dame Jessica Rawson, University of Oxford Panel I: Connectivity and Interactions Bulletin of the Asia Institute Chair: Prof. Dr. Enno Giele, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Hei - delberg Vol. 29 (2019) Interaction between China’s Great Wall Area and the Steppe Contents in the First Millennium BC Articles Prof. Dr. Jianhua Yang, Jilin University, Changchun; with Harry Falk English translation by Lokman Yang, Ruprecht-Karls-Univer - Kushan Religion and Politics sität Heidelberg Phyllis Granoff Inner Asia and China – Tracing Connectivity in the First Mil - The Art of Protecting Children: Early Images of Agni lennium BC Etienne de la Vaissière Dr. Ursula Brosseder, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Uni - The Faith of Wirkak the Denawar , or Manichaeism as Seen versität Bonn from a Zoroastrian Point of View Nomads of the Steppe Zone of Eurasia and Northern China Dieter Weber at the End of the Second and the Beginning of the First Mil - Studies in Some Documents from the “Pahlavi Archive” lennium BC Dr. Konstantin Chugunov, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Liu Wensuo Petersburg; with English translation by Dr. Maxim Korolkov, The Ephedra and Cannabis Discovered in Xinjiang (trans - Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg lated by Albert E. Dien) The Southern Contact Zone, Empire-Building, and Economic Anca Dan Change in China’s Early Imperial Era: Some Preliminary Ob - Landmarks of Persian Hegemony between Asia and Europe: servations The Achaemenids in the Black Sea Dr. Maxim Korolkov, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Review Discussant: Prof. Dr. Anke Hein, University of Oxford Un grand-prêtre parsi du 20ème siècle : Dastur Dr. Firouze Panel II: Entangled Materialities and Living Legacies M. Kotwal (Gignoux) Chair: Senior Prof. Dr. Lothar Ledderose, Ruprecht-Karls- Universität Heidelberg Ganbei Along the Eastern Rim of the Tibetan Plateau: Dou - ʻ ʼ 118 ble-handled Jars and Their Uses in Bronze Age Western Beasts Made of Gold: The Majiayuan Cemetery and its Cen - China tral Eurasian Context Prof. Dr. Anke Hein, University of Oxford Prof. Dr. Petya Andreeva, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York The Silk Road Fashion: Cultural Transmission and the Ex - change of Textile Ornaments The Construction and Expansion of Nomadic Kingdoms: The Xuansu Zhang, Freie Universität Berlin Sites of Arzhan and Sandaohaizi Prof. Dr. Wu Guo, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Leather-working in Iron Age China and Inner Asia in Light of Peking; with English translation by Lokman Yang, Ruprecht- the Latest Archaeological Research and the Artificers’ Record Karls-Universit Heidelberg (Kaogong-ji) Dr. Annie Chan, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Horses on a Box. Steppe Motifs on Lacquer Objects from and the Centre de Recherche sur les Civilisations de l'Asie Burials in Chaohu, Anhui Province Orientale, Paris Dr. Margarete Prüch, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Was There A ‘Bamboo Route’ Before Zhang Qian Arrived in Discussant: Prof. Dr. Lukas Nickel, Universität Wien Bactria? Panel IV: China and the Near East: Remote Contacts Dr. Shengguang Tan, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Peking Dr. Annette Kieser, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Mün - ster Metalwork with Fluted Decoration from the Warring States to the Middle Western Han Dynasty The Earliest Use of Greek Letters in China Dr. Jie Yin, Nanjing University Prof. Dr. Lukas Nickel, Universität Wien Discussant: Prof. Dr. Alain Thote, École pratique des hautes Traces of Artistic Conventions from the Near East and the études, Paris End of discussion & short break Achaemenid Empire in the Art of the Late Bronze Age China Prof. Dr. Alain Thote, École pratique des hautes études, Paris Special Evening Lecture Beyond