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A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth ...
This is a marvelously erudite book that tells the story of the extraordinary importance of Central Asia to the transmission of culture, religion and ideas along the Silk Road. It’s one of those ...
The book club was originally shuttered along with the rest of Silk Road when authorities made their first arrests in October. It was revived with the ill-fated Silk Road II, created by some of ...
The book condenses Hou's decade-long journey across key spots along the ancient Silk Road landscapes like the Lop Nur in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Dunhuang, (China) June 8, GNA – China has launched the Silk Road Oriental Pop Up Book in the sacred city of Dunhuang, promoting its global cultural dialogue, and mutual learning for common ...
The Silk Road, like the Milky Way, is not, alas, an entirely literal entity. It’s a branding exercise, a way of making ...
Sue Brunning, the curator of European Early Medieval collections at the British Museum, cites Peter Frankopan’s book The Silk Roads (2015) as crystallising interest in the subject, with the ...
The history book that will transform your view of early civilisation. Forget the Silk Roads, it’s the Golden Road we should be celebrating. Renowned historian William Dalrymple argues that ...
Author of The New Silk Roads on his abiding interest in the Silk Roads, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and how India, China, Iran, the Middle East, and to an extent, Russia, are reaching back ...