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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Maps and Illustrations | |
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| Introduction: From the Rise of the Silk Roads to a Eurasian Market System | |
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| China's Trade on the Western Frontier, Second First Centuries BCE | |
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| Rome's Trade to the East, First Century BCE Second Century CE | |
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| The Kushan Empire and the Influence of Buddhism, Second Century BCE Second Century CE | |
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| The Oasis Towns of Central Asia and the Spread of Buddhism, Third-Seventh Centuries | |
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| The Byzantine Empire and Silks in Royal Purple, Sixth Ninth Centuries | |
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| The Tang Empire and Foreign Traders and Priests, Eighth Tenth Centuries | |
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| Muslim Baghdad in the Eurasian Market, Ninth Eleventh Centuries | |
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| Trade Networks from the Mediterranean to the South China Sea, Tenth Thirteenth Centuries | |
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| The Documents | |
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| China's Trade on the Western Frontier, Second-First Centuries BCE | |
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| Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian of China, Early First Century BCE | |
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| Ban Gu, History of the Former Han Dynasty, Late First Century CE | |
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| Documents Excavated from Juyan Fort on the Great Wall, ca. 103 BCE-40 CE | |
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| Letter from an Officer to His Wife | |
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| Travelers' Passports | |
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| Soldiers'Work Assignments | |
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| Rome's Trade to the East, First Century BCE-Second Century CE | |
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| Strabo, The Geography, Early First Century CE | |
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| Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander, ca.145-60 CE | |
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| Pliny, Natural History, 77 CE | |
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| The Voyage around the Red Sea, First Century CE | |
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| Ptolemy, The Geography, Mid-Second Century CE | |
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| The Kushan Empire and the Influence of Buddhism, Second Century BCE-Second Century CE | |
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| The Questions of King Milinda, ca. 166-150 BCE | |
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| The Lotus of the True Law, First Century BCE-First Century CE | |
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| TheAmitabha Sutra, First Century BCE-FirstCentury CE | |
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| Votive Inscription on a Silver Plaque from Taxila, First-Second Centuries CE | |
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| The Oasis Towns of Central Asia and the Spread of Buddhism, Third-Seventh Centuries | |
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| Documents Excavated from the Ruins ofNiya, Third Century | |
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| Contract for the Sale of a Vineyard | |
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| An Ownership Dispute about a Slave | |
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| Regulations for a Community of Monks | |
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| Nanai-vandak, Letter to the Noble Lord Varzakk, ca. 313 | |
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| Faxian, A Record of the Buddhist Kingdoms, ca. 416 | |
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| Song Yun and Huisheng, The Mission of Song Yun and Huisheng, ca. 547 | |
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| Huili and Yanzong, The Life ofXuanzang, ca. 664-688 | |
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| Inventories Excavated from a Turfan Cemetery, Mid Seventh Century | |
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| Tang Zhuanghui, ca. 641 | |
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| Xinfu,672 | |
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| The Byzantine Empire and Silks in Royal Purple, Sixth Ninth Centuries | |
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| Procopius, History of the Wars, ca. 550 | |
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| Procopius, The Secret History, ca. 550 | |
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| The Book of the Eparch, ca. 895 | |
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| The Tang Empire and Foreign Traders and Priests, Eighth Tenth Centuries | |
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| Zhang Zhuo, Anecdotes from the Court and the Country, ca. 705 | |
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| Jingjing, Inscriptions from the Nestorian Stele, 781 | |
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| The Messiah of Christians | |
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| The Development of the Christian Church in China | |
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| Liu Xu and Others, The Old Tang History, 941-945 | |
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| Muslim Baghdad in the Eurasian Market, Ninth-Eleventh Centuries | |
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| Sulayman al-Tajir and Others, An Account of China and India, ca. 851 | |
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| Mas'udi, The Meadows of Gold: TheAbbasids, ca. 947 | |
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| Book of Gifts and Rarities, Eleventh Century | |
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| Trade Networks from the Mediterranean to the South China Sea, Tenth Thirteenth Centuries | |
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| Captain Buzurg Ibn Shahriyar, The Book of the Wonders of India, 953 | |
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| Inscription on a Cliff in the Port of Quanzhou, 1183 | |
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| Ibn Jubayr, The Travels of lbn Jubayr, ca. 1185 | |
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| Letter from a Jewish Trader in India to His Wife in Cairo, 1204 | |
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| Zhao Rukuo, Records concerning Foreign Countries, 1225 | |
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| Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian, ca. 1298 | |
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| Song Lian and Others, History of the Yuan Dynasty, 1370 | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| A Chronology of the Silk Roads Second Century BCE Thirteenth Century CE | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |