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 ...

Tomb of Zhang Qian was built in honor of Zhang Qian, who was sent by Emperor Wu Di of Western Han Dynasty as the special envoy on a diplomatic mission to the Western Regions. Thanks to his ...

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 ...