miércoles, 4 de diciembre de 2013

Silk Road

"Silk Road by Train, Summer of 2013"
Slide presentation by Connie Chin

Thursday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m.
Knight Bldg. Room 102
521 Memorial Way, Stanford University

Connie Chin, administrator of the Department of East Asian Languages
and Cultures at Stanford, traveled by train across Mongolia and the
northern Silk Road last summer.  This slide presentation will show
some of the highlights, such as staying with nomads in Mongolia,
talking with Han, Uyghurs, and Tibetans in northwest China, exploring
museums and archaeological sites, and walking the streets of Silk
Road cities (modern cities of three million, and remnants of ancient
cities baking in the sun).  Observations on economic development and
the tourist industry in China.

Connie holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. in ancient and
medieval history from San Jose State (2012).  She is author of
"Climate Change and Migrations of People during the Jin Dynasty
(Early Medieval China, 13/14, 2008) and "Geography and Social
Structure of Monasteries:  Cultural Diffusion or Convergent
Evolution?" (SJSU ScholarWorks, UMI, 2012).  She is studying Sogdian
language with Drs. Fred Porta and Al Dien.

Sponsored by the Silk Road Foundation and the Center for East Asian Studies

Mark your calendar for future lectures:

"Retrieving the Buddhist Canon at Bamiyan"
by Prof. Richard Salomon, University of Washington
Jan. 30, 2014 (Thursday) 7:30 p.m.
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center

"Transmissions of Buddhist Architecture in the Tarim Basin and China"
by Susan Whitfield, British Library
Feb. 7, 2014 (Friday) 6 p.m.
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center

"Buddhism and Trade on the Eastern Silk Road"
by Susan Whitfield, British Library
Feb. 8, 2014 (Saturday) 1-4 p.m.
place TBA