which can be reached in 24 days from China via the Panama Canal. And the Polar Silk Road will only be open in the summer for decades to come. Sea ice and vicious weather conditions will continue ...

On the eve of Beijing’s May 2017 Summit on its New Silk Road strategy and plans, historians may well ask how China was able to turn the tables on America in Eurasia. Just six years ago ...

The Arctic Silk Road is a £240 billion megaproject led by Russia and China, and it is has been hailed as "the future of international trade." The ambitious plan aims to create a faster and more ...

Using slides of objects from the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th to 7th Century, students will generate word maps that act as creative ...

Its author Nadège Rolland, a Distinguished Fellow of China Studies at the NBR, argues that the Health Silk Road is a “useful illustration of the extensively systematic organisation of the BRI’s ...

Agreements between Russia and China are reshaping the map of the global supply chain — five Arctic-class ships are being ...

In his writings, Polo noted Khotan’s wealth as an outpost on the Silk Road, the route that once carried trade between China and the Mediterranean world. On January 14, 1896, a caravan left from ...

A Tang Dynasty tomb unearthed in northwest China has shed new light on the lives and heritage of the Sogdians, ancient traders who played a vital role in connecting cultures along the Silk Road. The ...

Cymbals were introduced into China from India and Chinese gongs traveled to Europe. Silk Road on the Slant Walk During the academic years of 2005-06 and 2006-07, in order to promote the newly ...