Alain Cariou
- KERIYA
KERIYA (Chin. name Yutian), city and county in the southern Tarim basin in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China (see…
- KHOTAN i. Geography
Located between the northern foot of the Kunlun mountains and the edge of the Taklamakan desert (Figure 1), the city…
- KERIYA [2010]
KERIYA (Chin. name Yutian), city and county in the southern Tarim basin in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The…
- TAKLAMAKAN
TAKLAMAKAN (Uighur toponym probably derived from the Arabic tark, ‘out, relinquish,’ and makan, ‘place’), the largest desert in China, and…
- AKSU
AKSU, an important urban oasis on the Silk Road where Buddhism flourished during antiquity. The trade route provided Buddhism (Great…