Yuezhi Zhao is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and the author of Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line ...

The Yuezhi were considered a peripheral topic — just one of several nomadic tribes living on the fringes of the Han empire. Wang only became aware of the huge international interest in the Yuezhi in ...

Searching for the Yuezhi people was once a mission that took the ancient Han diplomat Zhang a decade to complete. Although Chinese texts, such Records of the Historian, ...

More than 2,000 years ago, on a mission of peace and to bolster exchanges, an envoy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) named Zhang Qian (164-114 BC) entered the heart of the Eurasian continent.