Review: A "mixed" memoirist's Silk Road travelogue becomes a road map to sanctuary. John Domini. Mon, October 24, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC. 5 min read.

It safeguarded a city where many travelers’ Silk Road journeys began, one 13 Chinese dynasties chose as their capital. Now, the wall stands between modern Xi’an and the old city center.

Commonly called the Silk Road, this terrestrial and aquatic system spanned as many as 6,000 miles and connected countless territories, from China and India to Iran and Italy. Crossing through the ...

“The Polar Silk Road, in that sense, is rather sophisticated because you need special ships to travel through those regions. The Digital Silk Road certainly will involve Industry 4.0 technologies.

BEIJING - The Silk Road spirit of peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit is the most important source of strength for Belt and Road cooperation ...

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road during the academic years 2005-6 and 2006-7. As part of that focus, 15 Miami faculty received a ...

If you ask me, as an archeologist, the foundations of Silk Road can be traced back to the Bronze Age. But the peak of this exchange we date to the medieval period, between the 6th century and the ...

A “mixed” memoirist’s Silk Road travelogue becomes a road map to sanctuary. ... ‘The White Mosque,’ finds her on the Silk Road, site of an earlier pilgrimage of Mennonites. (Jim C. Hines) ...

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Located in north-central China, the ancient city of Xi’an has long been famous for its 2,000-year-old Terracotta Army, an attraction that draws travelers from all ...