Sino-Kharosthi and Sino-Brahmi coins from the silk road of western China identified with stylistic and mineralogical evidence

The survival of organicmaterials in the waterless fringes of the Takla Makan and Lop Deserts in the Tarim basin in Xinjiang (north-western China) has fascinated us for a century, since Sven Hedin, Aurel Stein and Albert von Le Coq found the remains of settlements and cemeteries at the Great Wall's lonely outposts and along the routes between China and Central Asia known as the Silk Road. The finds date from the Bronze Age to the later firstmillennium AD. In the 1980s and '90s, it was shown that the most striking of them, the Tarim 'mummies', belong to both Mongoloid and Caucasoid peoples (Mallory&Mair 2000). The archaeology here of public and domestic life is full of the kinds of surprises and contradictions that we are learning to expect—if not accept—with 'globalisation'. Development in the region is now prompting new discoveries but also looters, so the research is urgent.

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Innovative design of campus green spaces in the context of the "One Belt, One Road" and the digital use of Silk Road elements

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202123605031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 236 ◽

pp. 05031

Author(s):

Weile Jiang ◽

Mingcong Zou

Keyword(s):

Field Investigation ◽

Landscape Design ◽

Silk Road ◽

Western China ◽

Landscape Configuration ◽

The Road ◽

Starting Point ◽

Teachers And Students ◽

Special Location ◽

The Silk Road

In recent years, the strategic development concept of “the Belt and Road Initiative” has been put forward in China, which brought new significance and connotation to the development of “Silk Road” in this era of globalization, digitalization and knowledge. As the starting point of the Silk Road, Xi 'an is also an international cultural metropolis that is further building and promoting economic prosperity and development. This special location has entrusted its unusual historical task. As the campus of Xi 'an Jiaotong University, the scientific and Technological Innovation Port in western China, located in Xi 'an, needs the rendering and influence of Silk Road culture. Therefore, in order to make teachers and students consciously inherit and appreciate the Silk Road culture, it is of great significance to make the diversity of the Silk Road culture reflect on the campus and create a unique campus landscape. The paper is divided into five chapters. Firstly, it summarises the development of Silk Road culture from different dimensions such as era, level and region, extracts different categories of elements, summarises them with the analysis of the research of Suzhou Silk Museum, and discusses how to apply these elements to campus landscape design. Take the landscape of the green space in the east part of the Innovation Port as a design sample, combine with the field investigation and analysis, further outline the shape, path, colour, material and plant elements, follow the principles and principles of campus landscape design, enumerate the plant elements with data, explore new application methods, define the design concept with characteristics, from the road, culture and ecological landscape configuration, characteristic silk road culture elements in the whole site. In this way, the Silk Road culture can be inherited, history can embrace the future, and a distinctive campus landscape can be created that adapts to the new trends of the times.

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Selection and strategy: the dominant industries in Western China under the framework of the Silk Road economic belt

Advances in Management Engineering and Information Technology ◽

10.2495/ameit140081 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

L. Yan ◽

H. Qin

Keyword(s):

Silk Road ◽

Western China ◽

Silk Road Economic Belt ◽

The Silk Road

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“Band Wagon and Gravy Train”: uses and abuses along the Silk Road

Afghanistan ◽

10.3366/afg.2019.0035 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 171-194

Author(s):

Warwick Ball

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

21St Century ◽

Silk Road ◽

Late 20Th Century ◽

Ancient Trade ◽

International Image ◽

Academic Discussion ◽

The Silk Road

The Silk Road as an image is a relatively new one for Afghanistan. It appeals to both the pre-Islamic and the perceived Islamic past, thus offering an Islamic balance to previous identities linked to Bamiyan or to the Kushans. It also appeals to a broader and more international image, one that has been taken up by many other countries. This paper traces the rise of the image of the Silk Road and its use as a metaphor for ancient trade to encompass all contacts throughout Eurasia, prehistoric, ancient and modern, but also how the image has been adopted and expanded into many other areas: politics, tourism and academia. It is argued here that the origin and popularity of the term lies in late 20th century (and increasingly 21st century) politics rather than any reality of ancient trade. Its consequent validity as a metaphor in academic discussion is questioned

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