Silk has played an important role in almost every aspect of Chinese society, politics and culture. A prestige textile, it signified status and wealth, figured in literature and religious rituals and ...
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Clayton Cheney is a nonresident fellow at the Pacific Forum and a practicing ...
As silk fabrics became all the rage in imperial Rome, explorers and merchants opened up land and sea routes, fostering not only commerce but a robust exchange of wisdom and beliefs. Two merchants show ...
CHINA’S vague but much-vaunted Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been providing buzzword fodder for government leaders and official sloganeers since 2013, when the country launched the scheme to ...
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