Statue erected in Chenggu in honor of Zhang Qian. Credit: 千里走单骑 / Wikimedia Commons To avoid falling into the same mistake, Qian undertook his new journey along a different route: instead of the ...

Zhang Qian, a royal emissary in China's Han Dynasty (202 BC -220 AD), traveled westward on a mission of peace and opened an overland route linking the East and the West, a daring undertaking which ...

BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Since diplomat and imperial envoy Zhang Qian's expedition westwards more than 2,000 years ago, a path connecting China and the outside world has come into ...

Zhang Qian, a royal emissary in China's Han Dynasty (202 BC -220 AD), traveled westward on a mission of peace and opened an overland route linking the East and the West, a daring undertaking which ...