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The book's shortfall is the use of outdated spellings and transcription systems. If you haven't grown up with Wade-Giles or Sanskrit, be prepared to puzzle over Ho Ch'up'ing (in Pinyin, Huo Qubing) and Tch'ang-ugen (Ch'ang-an, or modern Xi'an).
This volume is also best read with a historical atlas at one's side, unless you already know where Keriya, Endere, Begram, Saripul, Damghan, Balasagun and Tepe Maredjan are located because to read this volume without following the geographical identifiers would be a waste of your time. It's the geography and the cultures that count with Central Asian art, as the author warns us in the Introduction "the political conditions which developed in various sections of the vast area dealt with in this volume were often so fluid and complex that, for reasons both of brevity and clarity, it has seemed best to deal with the artistic schools peculiar to each region on a geographical rather than a chronological basis" (p. 10). And therein lies the value of this volume...together with scholar Talbot Rice's constant reminders to 'look back', to see the links, the influences, and to want to continue the search for the missing links. ( )