jueves, 5 de junio de 2014

Silk Road House

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). Connie will also share her observations on economic development and the tourist industry in China.

 Connie Chin 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 Scholar Works, UMI, 2012). She is studying Sogdian language with Drs. Fred Porta and Albert Dien.

 The event will take place at SRH on Sunday June 8, at 1-3pm.

 Silk Road House, 1944 University Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 (between Milvia & Martin Luther King; enter by side door in passageway under black Zabu Zabu awning); e-mail: silkroadhouse@yahoo.com; website: www.silkroadhouse.org; facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SilkRoadHouse; tel.: 510-981-0700.

Silk Road House events are sponsored by the Silkroad Foundation.

---Posted by: Alma Kunanabeva <almak@stanford.edu>