Silk Road

In A.D. 166, Chinese chroniclers recorded that ambassadors from the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius presented themselves at the imperial court of Luoyang in east-central China—and were given an unusual welcome. The travelers had come via Malaysia, followed the coasts of Thailand and Vietnam, and docked at a Chinese port at…

Editor's note: The United Nations has officially designated 44 Chinese traditions as world cultural heritage. This series examines how each of them defines what it means to be Chinese. Imaginechina The original musical Manas performed at Xinjiang People's Theatre in Urumqi during the inaugural Xinjiang Cultural Arts Festival in 2023.…

Tourists visit an ancient stage in Shaxi Town, Jianchuan County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, March 17, 2025. Shaxi, a remote township in Jianchuan County, was once an important trading hub for tea, herbs, silk and salt on the ancient Tea Horse Road, a trade route dating back to the Tang…

This painting from the bottom of a bowl is one of the earliest depictions of a cat from China, dating to 168 B.C. Markings on the cat's fur suggest it's a leopard cat, not a domestic cat. (Image credit: Hunan Museum Collection Database.) China's first pet cats arrived in the…

An aerial drone photo shows the mingsha mountain and crescent spring scenic spot in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province, Nov. 23, 2024. Around 2,000 years ago, Dunhuang was a key hub on the ancient Silk Road. Chinese silk and tea passed through this gateway en route to other countries, while…

MoUs worth $1.6 billion were signed at the China-Pakistan B2B matchmaking conference in the medical equipment and surgical instrument sector held Friday in Beijing. Silk Road Assistance Industrial Internet Platform, a provider of advisory services for companies to do cross-border businesses, entered into agreements respectively with Pakistan’s dental and surgical…

A 2021 survey of Greenland had 69.1 percent of those asked think that Greenland should cooperate more closely with the U.S. Greenland is not a member of the EU. When asking Greenlanders about if Greenland should cooperate with the EU, 65% answer that Greenland should cooperate more with the Union…

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Visitors view photos exhibited at a photography exhibition named "Encounters·Silk Road--Xi'an in the Eyes of an Italian Journalist" at Xi'an Museum in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, May 1, 2024. This exhibition is a selection of 87 old photos of Xi'an taken by Italian sinologist, journalist, and photographer Adriano Madaro…