Mapping Civilizations Across Eurasia

Part I. Introduction.- 1. Mapping Civilizations.- Part II. Studies on Civilization.- 2. From Movable Type to the World Wide Web.- 3. Speaking of Mesopotamia.- 4. My Take on the Middle East.- 5. Cultural Conflict & Integration Throughout History.- 6. Tracing the Footsteps and Influence of Xuanzang and Ibn Battuta.- 7. My Views on Orientology, Area Studies and Silk Road Research.- Part III. Silk Road.- 8. Cultural Interaction Along the Silk Road.- 9. The New Silk Road: Strategic Thinking.- 10. Frankincense, Oil and Geopolitics.- 11. China and Pakistan: A Historical View.- 12. Tempest in Eurasia: Russia, Ukraine and Georgia.- Part IV. Survey of Greater Central Asia.- 13. Greater Central Asia and the New Silk Road.- 14. Migration of Populations Within Greater Central Asia.- 15. Greater Central Asia: A Cultural Mosaic.- 16. My Journeys to Xinjiang: From Dream to Reality.- Part V. Portrait of India.- 17. Experiencing Emerging India.- 18. Getting Acquainted with the Indian Elephant.- 19. India's "Special Administrative Region"-Pondicherry.- 20. India's Take on "Belt and Road".- Part VI. Persian Cultural Sphere.- 21. Early Civilizations on the Iranian Plateau.- 22. Renascence of Persian Culture.- 23. Islam & the Invaders.- 24. Persian Poetry & Painting.- 25. Shia Islam and the Safavid Dynasty.- 26. Persian Civilization & Iran's Modernization.- Part VII. Caucasus.- 27. Ethnographic Museum on the Border Between Europe and Asia.- 28. Musical Chairs in the Caucasus.- 29. North Caucasus: Russia's Southern Frontier.- 30. The Post-Soviet South Caucasus.- 31. South Caucasus: International Machinations.- Part VIII. Turkish March.- 32. Westward Migration of the Turkic-speaking People.- 33. The Road to Republicanism.- 34. Toward a Modern Republic.-

Professor H. K. Chang is a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and a Chevalier of France's L'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur. A renowned scholar in biomedical engineering, he served as Dean of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and President of City University of Hong Kong. During more than a half century of travel, he has set foot in some 105 countries, and been a visiting professor at the University of Paris, Cairo University, Istanbul's Bosporus University, and University of Delhi. He is the author of a dozen books on civilizations, Silk Road history, and education. His academic interest is now engaged in cultural exchanges across Eurasia.