Silk Road

Ailsa Ross | Longreads | August 2019 | 22 minutes (6,062 words) Its the winter of 1923 and a five-foot tall woman is shooting at brigands in Tibet. Shes surviving a blizzard by eating boot leather. Shes accepting a maggot-dancing stew from a drug-addled butc…

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The first freight train from China to the UK arrives at the London Eurohub depot in Barking this January Chris Ratcliffe · Bloomberg · Getty Chinas president Xi Jinping must have been pleased with the success of the first international forum on its new Silk…

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Kaiyuan Temple and the Hindu God sculpture on the pillar. The history of Tamil-Chinese interactions dates back two thousand years ago. From the renowned Buddhist monk XuanZang to nameless explorers, numerous Chinese travellers and historians have left notes …

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