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Xi’an: China’s Antique Silk Road Capital. Click to read the article Xi’an: China’s Antique Silk Road Capital

Located near the heart of China’s traditional Yellow River and Wei River Valleys, yet far enough to the west to exercise effective control over the great overland trade routes between East and Central Asia, Xi’an was the western gateway (or, the eastern terminus, depending on geographical perspective), of the fabled Silk Road.
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Ancient ‘Water Towns’ of Zhejiang and Jiangsu. Click to read the article.

Ancient ‘Water Towns’ of Zhejiang and Jiangsu

There is a lot to see to the west and northwest of Shanghai, including some of the loveliest countryside in China around Lake Tai, an area rich in traditional ‘Water Towns’ with traditional hump-backed bridges arching across picturesque willow-lined canals.
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South China in the Imperial Era. Click to read the article

South China in the Imperial Era

Historically, China has been driven by a southward territorial imperative that would eventually see all the territories between the Yangzi and the current frontiers of mainland Southeast Asia and India gradually conquered and settled by Han Chinese, the indigenous peoples either being absorbed, surrounded and marginalised, or migrating south ahead of the Chinese to avoid subjugation.
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Thailand’s Mystic Tattoo Ceremony. Click to read the article.

Thailand’s Mystic Tattoo Ceremony

Every year in March, thousands of gangsters, drug dealers and mercenaries gather at dawn in the grounds of a temple in Nakorn Sawan. They pray and chant and become possessed. They break out in mass hysteria. Buddhist monks oversee the event and bless them all. Then the monks tattoo the men with animal spirits—to protect them from bullets and knives for another year.
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Research: Trade and Trade Routes

NEW Read about China’s ‘Ancient Tea-Horse Road’, one of several articles in our new Trade Routes research section.


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