Exploring the Southern Silk Road in Guizhou

The Southern Silk Road, a passageway that has nearly been forgotten, experienced its ups and downs throughout history. There was a time when it was one of the most prosperous business passageways in South China, winding its way through the Southeast, among the large range of cragged mountains and torrential rivers. This passageway, linking land and water, starts out from Hunan Province, passes all of Guizhou and finally reaches Burma via either Yunnan Province or Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The Han people took goods like salt, silk, needles and threads and brought home the rice and medicinal materials they had bought from local ethnic groups. The passageways originating from Yunnan and Guangxi join into one at Guizhou, going across all of Guizhou from the Southeast to the Northwest. Chinaweek will be telling stories about the Southern Silk Road from Zhenyuan, Guiyang, Anshun and Xingyi in three issues, beginning with Zhenyuan.     

Sea Silk Road

The salvaging of an 800-year-old sunken merchant ship could be evidence of an ancient ocean trade route between China and Europe You may know the Silk Road, a trade route from west China to the continents of Europe and Africa since China's Han Dynasty(206 B.C.-220)that got its name from the export of China's silk. But have you ever heard of a silk road on the     

Revival of the Silk Road

China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, bordering eight countries and providing a corridor to the Central Asian region, was once famous for the Silk Road. But now this region is often reported by Western media as having the problems of "political separatism, economic exclusion and religious fundamentalism." Professor David Gosset with the Shanghai-based China Europe International Business School analyzed Xinjiang's development, which he framed as "Xinjiang's experience." According to him, Xinjiang has served as a platform for communication among different cultures and Xinjiang's experience "might help stabilize the macro region." His main ideas follow:     

The Silk Road and Tang Prosperity

THE dance drama, Along the Silk Road, returned to the Beijing stage for the 2003 Chinese New Year celebrations, to as enthusiastic a reception as when it was first performed 24 years ago. Set in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the drama celebrates the grotto art of Dunhuang     

A Tour on the Old Silk Road

ＡＴｏｕｒｏｎｔｈｅＯｌｄＳｉｌｋＲｏａｄＴｈｅｒｅｍａｉｎｓｏｆｔｈｅａｎｃｉｅｎｔｃｉｔｙｏｆＧａｏｃｈａｎｇ．ＢｙＤａＷｅｉＡｗｏｎｄｅｒｆｕｌｏｐｐｏｒｔｕｎｉｔｙｔｏｒｅｃａｐｔｕｒｅｈｉｓｔｏｒｙ．ＩＮＴＨＥ２ｎｄｃｅｎｔｕｒｙＢ．Ｃ．，...     

Capturing the ‘Silk Road Gem’

In the eyes of one Chinese painter,Istanbul is a magnificent wonderlandblending the ancient and the modernWhen speaking about his search for artistic inspiration in Turkey that he undertook a mere handful of years ago.Wang Shengli,a famed oil painter from northwest China,can barely contain his excitement     

Quanzhou:Start of the maritime Silk Road

Ｑｕａｎｚｈｏｕ：ＳｔａｒｔｏｆｔｈｅｍａｒｉｔｉｍｅＳｉｌｋＲｏａｄＦｏｒｔｈｏｓｅｗｈｏｗｏｕｌｄｌｉｋｅｔｏｌｅａｒｎｍｏｒｅａｂｏｕｔＣｈｉｎａ＇ｓａｎｃｉｅｎｔｓｅａｔｒａｄｅ，Ｑｕａｎｚｈｏｕｈａｓｍｕｃｈｔｏｏｆｆｅｒ．Ｂｙｓｔａｆｆｒ...     

Through the Silk Road on a Heritage Train

SEPTEMBER 2001, our journey begins in the British suite of the elegant Peace Hotel, Shanghai.The Peace Hotel is a treat. The patina of the place gets into your bones and evokes memories of movies and books dealing with life in the 20's, history in the mak…     

Guiyang and Anshun Mysterious middle part of the Southern Silk Road

Yanlou-A place of mystery by the ancient post road'Look, this lake is named Lake Aha, and the dirt road on the other side is the earliest post road, which leads directly to Anshun,' said Yi Liangjun, a gentle-man in his seventies, sitting next to me as we were driving on a narrow strip out of Guiyang capital of Guizhou Province. Nowadays, most of the remaining ancient post roads along the Southern Silk Road are reduced to weed- covered country tracks. Among the tussocks, we managed to loc…     

New Silk Road Economic Belt- Spearhead of China＇s Westward Strategy

THE new Chinese leadership＇s revitalization of China＇s foreign policies became evident during President Xi Jinping＇s recent state visits. President Xi revealed China＇s new concepts of international relations in response to an increasingly complex global environment throughout trips to four Central Asian countries from September 3 to 14 and his participation in the 2013 Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit.     

The Road of the “Wonder Kid”

FORMER snooker world champion Peter Ebdon once said that the rising Chinese star Ding Junhui is destined to become the     

Soft as Silk

In AD 300 a Chinese princess smuggled a silkworm out of the country.It was this treasured dowry item that brought the secrets of silk industry to the rest of the world,at least as legend would have it.     

Anping Silk Screens

InHebeiProvince'sAnpingCounty,peoplehavebeenweavingsinceancienttimes.Earlyinthe15thcentury,localsusedhorse'stailsandhumanhairtoweavethincloth.Foreigntradersandmerchantswouldcomeseekingthespecialcloth.In1925,whennewmetalscreentechnologywasintroducedtoChina,Anpingweaversincorpo-ratedthetechnologyintotheirwork.Theydevel-opedscreensforcivilandindustrialuse.Eventually,theydevelopedtheirownbrandnameandbecamefamoustbrscreenproduction.Today,onefOurthofAnping'spopulationareworkinginthecounty's7000s…     

A Pearl Embedded in the New Silk Road——An Exclusive Interview with Mayor of Kaifeng Ji Bing

正KAIFENG,located in the heart of China,was the world’s biggest and busiest city during the 11th and 12th centuries.As the intersection of the land and maritime Silk Roads,it was a place from where goods were dispatched and traders from the East and West met.Today,it is a major city in the central China economic region due to its integrated development with Zhengzhou,capital of Henan Province.     

Road Wars

Roads are packed bumper to bumper at rush hour and there is habitually high congestion in 65 spots. Traffic jams are a source of public stress and low confidence in road safety.     

Road Definition

In a recent article, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stresses that China will remain at the primary stage of socialism for quite a long time and is facing arduous tasks to develop productivity and to reform its political system and improve the socialist democratic and legal system. Yang Lingling, a professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, explains that, from the perspective of the historical tasks at the primary stage of socialism and taking into account both internal and external circumstances,Wen's judgment is an important clarification of the outlook on scientific development that China is carrying out. Excerpts of Yang's comments follow:     

The Tao of Silk

China's most ancient gift to the world, silk, arrived long before gunpowder, paper and printmaking. This coveted fabric predated Christ and Buddha. Silk startled the world: Lenient ancient Romans banned it as sexy and immoral. Durable, useful and elegant, it is one of the oldest fibers known to man. Production remained a Chinese secret until 550 when two Nestorian monks, risking their lives,     

on the Road

HAVING stopped work due to pregnancy and the birth of my beautiful son Benjamin, I enjoy being back on the bike each morning, riding to my new job. I devoutly believe in biking - for distances that take less than half an hour - and luckily need only 25 minutes to get to work.     

On The Road

The trickle of foreign rock acts playing China has become a noisy stream. But few local acts do overseas tours.     

Bumpy Road Ahead

Despite the recent positive turn, China and Japan have a long way to go to reshape their relationsC hina-Japan relations have gone through two stages in 2006. In the first nine months of this year, as Junichiro Koizumi was finishing his term as Japanese p…