The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters
New Books in Geography
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The Re-Establishment of Cultural Diffusion
Westerners tend to think of the Silk Road as exclusively an East West relationship. Does that mean that that is almost a colonial astitude really and that the Japanese version is different? I'm not sure whether colonial is the right term and I want to necessarily use that. The Silk Road gets imagined in different ways from different parts of the world. So for China it's about the spread of Chinese culture.
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