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SUMMARY:Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Silk Roads and Steppe Roads of Medieval China: History Unearthed from Tombs\, III
DESCRIPTION:This lecture\, the third in a series of four Rostovtzeff L
 ectures during spring 2016\, will return to the topic of immigrants\, 
 but in this case two lineages with the same surname of Shi who settled
  at Guyuan in China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region where the Silk R
 oads and Steppe Roads intersect. These people were locally powerful el
 ites serving a succession of China-based dynasties as military officer
 s\, imperial bodyguards\, horse breeders and translators in the sixth 
 and seventh centuries. Their existence literally came to light when ar
 chaeologists excavated six tombs at Guyuan in the 1980s and 1990s cont
 aining burial goods and seven engraved stone epitaphs written in Chine
 se. A scholarly consensus has developed that both lineages had Sogdian
  origins\, but this lecture along with the second lecture in the Rosto
 vtzeff series will challenge and complicate this conclusion.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
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