China’s Silk Road: Old and

New

2014 Beijing Annual Conference on the WTO and China

Nayan Chanda
Silk Road: Old and New
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 Birth of a global connector

Silk Routes on land and sea

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 The trails get a name in 1877

Die Seidenstrassen

Ferdinand von Richthofen

(1833 – 1905)

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 Buddhism on the Silk Road

Xuanzang returns from India, 645 CE

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 Xuanzhang on Silk Road

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 Buddhist art in Dunhuang

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 China: The supplier of ultimate
luxury

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 Emperor Justinian and Nestorian
monks - the silkworm smugglers

Mid 6th century

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 Silk Road traffic in the 13th century

Marco Polo on the Silk Road

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 A sobering drink for Europeans

Tea warehouse, Guangzhou, 19th century

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 Sea-Silk Road travellers

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 Chinese admiral in the Indian
Ocean

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 Suppliers of the New Silk Road

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 In the past Silk Road came
to China. Now China will
take the road everywhere.

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