ACTA VIA SERICA

Editor’s Note

Juhyung RHI
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 0-0, Dec. 2025

Female Donors in Dunhuang: Focusing on Mogao Cave 61

Sun-ah CHOI
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 1-32, Dec. 2025

10.22679/avs.2025.10.2.1

Big Data Analytics and “Silk Road” Heritage in Inner Asia: Directions and Discrepancies

Annie CHAN
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 33-60, Dec. 2025

10.22679/avs.2025.10.2.33

SPECIAL SECTION: BUDDHIST ART OF KUCHA Introduction: Indigenous Buddhist Culture of the Tocharians of Kucha

Melanie MALZAHN and Monika ZIN
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 61-72, Dec. 2025

10.22679/avs.2025.10.2.61

The Pictorial Language of Kucha: Local Innovations in Kucha’s Artistic Workshops

Ines KONCZAK-NAGEL and Monika ZIN
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 73-98, Dec. 2025

10.22679/avs.2025.10.2.73

The Mahāsūtras and the Wall Paintings of Kucha

Hiromi HABATA and Satomi HIYAMA
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 99-134, Dec. 2025

10.22679/avs.2025.10.2.99

Modes of Burial and Mourning Rituals in Kucha: On the Central Role of the Yurt and the Unique Find of a Coffin

Astrid KLEIN
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 135-160, Dec. 2025

10.22679/avs.2025.10.2.135

Memory and Merit: The Commemorative Dimension of Central Pillar Caves in Kucha

Ji Ho YI
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 161-192, Dec. 2025

10.22679/avs.2025.10.2.161

Tocharian Merchants: Their Representations in the Jātaka Scenes in Kucha Paintings

Dominika KLIMASZEWSKI and Yi XIE
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 193-222, Dec. 2025

10.22679/avs.2025.10.2.193

Magic and Rituals in Kucha Paintings and Texts

Olga CHOI-KIENZLER
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 223-248, Dec. 2025

10.22679/avs.2025.10.2.223

Weaving Together What Belongs Together: Combining KMIS and CEToM

Hannes A. FELLNER and Erik RADISCH
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 249-278, Dec. 2025

10.22679/avs.2025.10.2.249

Book Review 1. İsenbike Togan. Breeze & Storm: Nomadic Culture and Tribal Politics Along the Silk Road

Marco FERRARIO
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 279-281, Dec. 2025

Book Reveiw 2. Dilnoza Duturaeva. Qarakhanid Roads to China: A History of Sino-Turkic Relation

Almas DISSYUKOV
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 281-283, Dec. 2025

Book Review 3. Eric Tagliacozzo. In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama

Cagri ERDEM
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 284-286, Dec. 2025

Book Reveiw 4. Beatrice Penati. Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan

Irena VLADIMIRSKY
Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 286-289, Dec. 2025

Digital Library