The Iron Silk Road will launch a new chapter in the history of the Caucasus. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the newly independent republics of the southern Caucasus—Georgia ...

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 new Silk Road is Chinese. A man collects Soviet-era ... The Central Asian polymath Al-Biruni wrote more than a hundred books, among them a detailed anthropology of India and a study titled ...

I travel the world reporting on emerging markets and China overseas. The New Silk Road is the defacto label applied to the emerging network of infrastructure mega-projects, enhanced transportation ...

He is the author of several books and articles including Religions of the Silk Road, Mughal India and Central Asia ... one notable example in Central Asia is the ancient Iranian New Year festival at ...

Religious beliefs of the peoples of the Silk Road changed radically over time and was largely ... That is, they either actively seek to recruit new members to the faith from outside the current ...

van der Wende, Marijk C., William C. Kirby, Nian Cai Liu, and Simon Marginson, eds. China and Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities Across Eurasia. Oxford University Press, 2020.

I just finished Aarathi Prasad's new book, Silk. The author, a molecular geneticist, and bioarcheologist raised in the Caribbean, wore silk saris all her youth. Her book explains silk's origins ...

The Belt and Road makes China a player, but not the biggest nor the most dominant, in the game of international finance. While many countries would like to be part of the Silk Road route ...