{"id":2889,"date":"2016-08-20T01:08:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T01:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2016\/08\/20\/its-all-connected-silk-roads-old-and-new\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T01:08:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T01:08:43","slug":"its-all-connected-silk-roads-old-and-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/its-all-connected-silk-roads-old-and-new\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s all connected: Silk Roads old and new"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Millward discusses the myths, lies, truths and significance of Central Asia, Xinjiang, the Silk Road and new Chinese initiatives to revive it.<\/p>\n

Jim Millward<\/a> is one of the world’s leading scholars on Xinjiang and Central Asia, and the author of many books and articles, includingBeyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864<\/em><\/a>, and The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction<\/em><\/a>, published by Oxford.<\/p>\n

In this week’s Sinica Podcast<\/em>, Kaiser and Jeremy talk to Jim about the myths and histories of the Silk Road and a continent’s worth of related subjects: Xi Jinping’s signature effort to revive the Silk Road through the One Belt, One Road initiative<\/a>; the mythological bird associated with Central Asia known as the Dapeng<\/a> (\u5927\u9e4f), or Roc; the argument over the connection of extremism in Xinjiang to global jihadism; the Chinese policy on ethnic minorities; and academic debates over “New Qing History” and a number of other issues that are putting Central Asia back into its formerly central place in the story of the world’s past.<\/p>\n

This episode also features a special outro tune played by Jim and Kaiser.<\/p>\n

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Recommendations<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Jeremy — books by Peter Fleming:<\/strong><\/p>\n