Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road ... 1,500 years from the Han Dynasty, when the government began to station garrisons there, until the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ...

The Silk Road maintained its status for over a millennium ... so retaliated by embargoing trade with Europe. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, China was once again shut off from the outside world ...

Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was ...

But this small shard of porcelain, dating from the Ming Dynasty (1520–1570), rewrote ... the extensive network of ancient trade routes, such as the Silk Road, makes it plausible that traders ...

For Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk traveling the Silk Road in A.D. 629 ... finally shutting itself off from the world during the Ming dynasty in the 14th century. "Unlike Indian Buddhists, the Chinese ...

The best place to see how it all got started is the city’s excellent Silk Museum (Sichou Bowuguan) on Renmin Road. By the time of the Ming dynasty, the city was flooded with wealthy merchants ...

The mass production of Dehua white ware can be traced to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and in the 17th and 18th centuries it ...