Ser India

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Map from Serindia by Aurel Stein, 1922

The word Serindia (English Serindia - coined by the discoverer Aurel Stein ) is a term composed of Seres (China) and India and refers to the part of Asia , which is also known as Xinjiang (Sinkiang), Chinese Turkestan, Kashgaria, Chinese Central Asia or by several other names.

The art of this region is known as Ser-Indian art (see Gandhara ).

literature

  • Aurel Stein : Serindia: Detailed report of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China , 5 volumes, London & Oxford: Clarendon Press 1921. Reprint: Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi 1980. ( online version )
  • Peter Hopkirk : The Silk Road. In search of lost treasure in Chinese Central Asia . Translated from the English by Hans Jürgen Baron von Koskull. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-499-18564-4 .
  • Bruno J. Richtsfeld (ed.): August Hermann Franckes (1870–1930). Editing of the Ser India and Ladakh Collection Francke / Körber in the Ethnographic Museum in Munich from 1928. The Ser India Collection of the State Museum of Ethnology, Munich I. In: Munich Contributions to Ethnology 14 , 2010/2011, ISBN 978-3-927270- 63-3 , pp. 65-128.
  • Bruno J. Richtsfeld (ed.): The correspondence between Lucian Scherman and Albert von Le Coq and the reasons for the failure of a Ser India department at the Ethnographic Museum in Munich. The Indian collection of the State Museum of Ethnology, Munich II. In: Munich Contributions to Ethnology 14 , 2010/2011, ISBN 978-3-927270-63-3 , pp. 129–193.
  • Marianne Yaldız : Archeology and Art History of Sino-Central Asia (Xinjiang). Brill, Leiden 1987, ISBN 90-04-07877-0 . ( Handbook of Oriental Studies , Dept. 7, Volume 3, Section 2)