The trouble is this: what is shown on the map above is the old Silk Road, not the new one. Current official Chinese publications stress the importance of the land connections between industrial ...

A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

I finished my Silk Road tour in Kashgar, China. There I saw the impact of President Xi’s “One Belt, One Road” policy, and the reinstitution of the old Silk Road as a new trade corridor.

As he prepares to follow the Silk Road from Central Asia ... And it's a very off-the-map place. I mean, it's about, I don't know, 100,000, 150,000 people, an old uranium mining town under the ...

At that time, Kargil was known as an important hub on the Treaty Road – a branch of the old Silk Road that connected China to Central Asia via Kashmir. "Kargil has always been tied to many parts ...

A map (left) of the Silk Road during the Western Han Dynasty. Another map (right) showing the location of the newfound burial (red triangle). The black triangles are cinnabar mines.

A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle Kingdom. Reading Time: 4 minutes. Why you can trust SCMP.