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Title: Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk ISBN: 0-87023-435-8 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: March, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.09 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Great Game
Comment: Mr. Hopkirk in all of his works is accurate, profound and should be mandatory reading for all Foreign Service personnel. Having done Central Asia, the book was the "bible" in knowing the intimate details needed to not only do business in the post-Soviet era, but just in being able to discuss and move within the people where many thousands could not even bring voice to such concepts in the old days, which today are only "chatted" about in remote areas. Hopkirk rips at the fabric of humanity in what the west thinks is proper and what is reality in an eastern environment with its many passionate, intelligent, warm, and emotionally infectious people. I have read all of Peter's works several times and I continue to do so. You just have to be there to know that Hopkirk hits the nerve. It's just too much!!
G. Jannotta
Rating: 4
Summary: return the plundered art work
Comment: A fascinating account of the plundering of art objects from the Silk Road. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the fascinating tale of the intrigue and scheming as well as the hazards of the laborious expeditions. However, as another reviewer has written, I think Hopkirk has missed the point in that removing these art objects has saved them for posterity. The stolen artifacts are China's patrimony, much like the Magna Carta for Britain, Russian Icons, Martin Luther's writings for Germany, The Bordeaux tapestry for France and the manuscript of the Genji Monogatari for Japan, they are the essence of a nation' cultural heritage and should not be plundered and stashed away in foreign museums! The time has come for these to be returned to their rightful owners so they can be studied and documented and kept for posterity. I commend the book otherwise.
Rating: 4
Summary: The era of European domination of people of color is over
Comment: It's easy to become enraptured by Hopkirk's romantic storytelling, but it's important not to forget that the "discoveries" of Sir Aurel Stein and others is tantamount to the theft of historical and cultural artifacts that do not belong to the European people. Like the plunder of religious objects of the Pacific Northwest Coast Indians and displaying them in museums like the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, European and Euro-American cultures have too long felt entitled to co-opt the "goods" of non-European cultures and do with them what they will. So-called "bartering" and "exchange" were often laced with half-hidden threats and intimidation.
The era of European domination is over, and it's time to return to those people what rightly belongs to them.
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Title: Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk ISBN: 1568360509 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk ISBN: 1568360223 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Life along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield ISBN: 0520232143 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 06 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk ISBN: 1568361025 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire by Peter Hopkirk ISBN: 1568361270 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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