Creating the Silk Road: Travel, Trade and Myth-Making

The idea of the Silk Road is an enduring concept. Originally created by 19th century Europeans to provide an understandable narrative of trade in the non—European world, it has become a romanticised term describing a route connecting 'the East and West', the assumed major powers of China and Rome. In Creating the Silk Road Khodadad Rezakhani challenges this assumption, providing an alternative narrative which does not gloss over the intricacies in the histories of the various regions, from ...