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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Silk Road"”.
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Silk Road: A Novel
Silk Road: A Novel
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Conceptualizing Silk Road as countercultural rebellion
Silk Road (SR) is an anonymous online illicit marketplace (OIM) that is often cited as an example of criminal innovation. I add that SR is more than just a marketplace and should be considered as a demonstration of rebellion. The aim of this research is to critically co-construct a definition of SR …
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Reordering the Region and Regionalising Higher Education
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) unveiled by the Chinese Government in 2013 is an important geo-political, and geo-economic strategy aimed at reconnecting the ancient Silk Road for enhancing Eurasian development and prosperity. Economically, the BRI is a new development strategy for China …
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"U.S. – CHINA COMPETITION IN ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: THE AIIB AND THE NEW GLOBAL ORDER?
<p>China’s initiation of the New Silk Road plan in late 2013 has a potentially huge impact on global development. The purpose of this thesis is to understand, the impacts of the Chinaled on the global financial system. This paper highlights key issues related to finances and governance at the AIIB. …
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Renaissance of the Mogao Grotto
… the flourishing, vanished and renaissance of the Silk Road in the past two thousand years. Due to the significant position located at the nodes of the routes on the Silk Road, Dunhuang has experienced a variety of cultural influences. Given its cruel desert climate where caravans were threatened …
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Producing and Using Codices in Tenth Century Dunhuang
… Buddhism, education and cultural exchange on the Silk Road.
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By hotter winds : the road to Samarkand
… Asia yet. We still had to negotiate desert roads and traverse the Pamir Highway, second-highest in the world. Before reaching Samarkand we’d have lost ten kilogrammes each, seen a hundred busts of Lenin and been harried by a thousand officious border guards and ex-KGB policemen. We …
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A tacit alliance: the political economy of Iranian-Chinese relations
… (politically) between one another from the silk road era to the present day, as supported by holistic constructivist theory and cognitive approaches to foreign policy. Iranian-Chinese relations are the creation of myriad factors at many levels of interaction, be they regional, international …
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THE OLD CITY OF KASHGAR: LOSS OF WORLD HERITAGE IN TIMES OF RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE
… intercontinental trade route known today as the Silk Road.
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THE OLD CITY OF KASHGAR: LOSS OF WORLD HERITAGE IN TIMES OF RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE
… intercontinental trade route known today as the Silk Road.
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Chinese Intervention in East Africa: A Comparative Case Study of The Belt and Road Initiative in Kenya and Djibouti
The phrases Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR), and New Silk Road are commonly used in western media as propagandistic language, but what do these phrases mean? What is the Belt and Road Initiative, how is China using this initiative in East African states? What …
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Exploring the Interplay of Religious and Worldly Dynamics through the Development of the Dunhuang Grottos
The Hexi Corridor, a critical part of the ancient Silk Road in northwest China, presents a compelling case for studying the relationship between religious diversity and tolerance, shaped by historical conflicts. This study examines these dynamics at the Mogao Grottoes, a key site for understanding …
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Situating documentary film in a speculative future: an exploration in multi species entanglements
… in the world and an important node in the New Silk Road. Set in the world of anthropomorphic goods and objects, including dolls, mannequins and androids, the film follows two timetravellers as they confront questions of time, mortality and what it means to be human in the Anthropocene. The …
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Chinese investment in Europe: An analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an initiative launched by the Chinese government in 2013 that aims to enhance the global supply chain through large-scale infrastructure investments along a modern “silk road” that connects Asia, Africa, and Europe, where the BRI trade routes end. We observed …
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Tourism Development and Women in Under Crises Destinations: A Case Study of Chilas, Pakistan.
… this research Chilas- a valley situated on the Silk Road under the control of the Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan is being used as a case study. The main purpose of this research is to explore the problems relating to tourism and development since the destination and community is facing …
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Language strategies along the One Belt One Road Initiative : Language and International Trade with Emphasis on the Chinese, English and Russian languages
… its economic development. China’s One Belt One Road Initiative (OBORI) has attracted worldwide attention. The initiative expands trade relations along the historic Silk Road to Central Asia, Europe and Africa. The OBORI is one of the world's largest economic development initiatives. The …
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Reclaiming state power to bridge governance gaps in global trade
… the caravans of traders trekking across the Silk Road, about the merchant traveller Marco Polo, about the misplaced aspirations of Christopher Columbus and the resulting Columbian Exchange between Europe and the Americas. This is an oft-mythologized and sometimes flatly fabricated period of …
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The genetic heritage of China: A genomic study of PR China based on nine representative ethnic populations
… historical events, such-as migration along the Silk Road, could be inferred. Through the use of autosomal markers, aspects of the internal structure of the study populations were uncovered, such as endogamy and/or consanguinity. These conclusions were made possible, in part, by experimental …
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Botanical Resource Use in the Bronze and Iron Age of the Central Eurasian Mountain/Steppe Interface: Decision Making in Multiresource Pastoral Economies
… Age transition eventually cumulated into the Silk Road, and it brought new crops and technology into Central Asia, ultimately leading to increased social complexity and stratification.</p>
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Navigating the Smellscape of Medieval China
Smell mattered in medieval China. Through the sense of smell, people navigated the natural and social world, structured human-divine relationships. Medieval Chinese texts are replete with references to smells of people, things, and places. Mediated through the minds of their recorders, olfactory …
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