"Silk Road by Train, Summer of 2013"
Slide presentation by Connie
Chin
Thursday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m.
Knight Bldg. Room 102
521
Memorial Way, Stanford University
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). Observations on economic development and
the
tourist industry in China.
Connie 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
ScholarWorks, UMI, 2012). She is studying Sogdian
language with Drs. Fred
Porta and Al Dien.
Sponsored by the Silk Road Foundation and the Center
for East Asian Studies
Mark your calendar for future
lectures:
"Retrieving the Buddhist Canon at Bamiyan"
by Prof. Richard
Salomon, University of Washington
Jan. 30, 2014 (Thursday) 7:30
p.m.
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
"Transmissions of
Buddhist Architecture in the Tarim Basin and China"
by Susan Whitfield,
British Library
Feb. 7, 2014 (Friday) 6 p.m.
Levinthal Hall, Stanford
Humanities Center
"Buddhism and Trade on the Eastern Silk Road"
by
Susan Whitfield, British Library
Feb. 8, 2014 (Saturday) 1-4 p.m.
place
TBA
