Xinru Liu

Assistant Professor

Phone: (609) 771-2341

Office:

www.tcnj.edu/~liux

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1985

A specialist on Ancient India and cross-cultural trade in ancient and medieval Asia, Professor Liu teaches courses on Classical Indian and Chinese history and on the history of the Silk Road.

Publications

Connections Across Eurasia: Transportation, Communication, and Cultural Exchange on the Silk Roads (Co-authored with Lynda Norene Shaffer, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2007)
The Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Interactions in Eurasia (American Historical Association, Essays on Global and Comparative History, 1998)
Silk and Religion: an Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600-1200 (Oxford University Press, 1999)
"Silks and Religions in Eurasia, c. A.D. 600-1200," Journal of World History 6 (1995)
"A Note on Buddhism and Urban Culture in Kushan, India," Indian Economic and Social History Review 27 (1990)
Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, AD 1-600 (Oxford University Press, 1988; reprinted 1994)

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