External event: China and the Silk Road
China and the Silk Road
| Date: | 07/11/2024, 7:00 PM - 9:45 PM |
| Speaker: | Prof. Thomas O. Höllmann |
The Silk Road has become the epitome of early globalisation. Since ancient times, envoys, traders, missionaries and adventurers have travelled the Silk Road. Travelling overland, they passed through hostile deserts, overcame towering mountains and stayed in bustling oasis towns. Sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann looks at the legendary network of routes from the perspective of China.
China and the Silk Road
Lecture and discussion with Thomas O. Höllmann and Roland Altenburger
When: 11 July 2024, 19:00 hrs
Where: Schelling-Forum, Klinikstraße 3, 97070 Würzburg
The Silk Road has become the epitome of early globalisation. Envoys, traders, missionaries and adventurers have travelled the Silk Road since ancient times. Travelling overland, they passed through hostile deserts, overcame towering mountains and stayed in bustling oasis towns. Sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann looks at the legendary network of routes from the perspective of China.
How did people travel? How did they pass on goods and ideas? And what does history teach us about today's China with its mega-project of the "New Silk Road"?
Thomas O. Höllmann explores these and other questions in his lecture and in the subsequent discussion with Roland Altenburger. Find out more about the economic foundations, political motives and cultural framework conditions of trade on the Silk Road.
