The Maritime Silk Road and Cultural Exchange Between China and the World (Revised Edition)

Author: Chen Yan
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Features: This book is selected from eighteen papers on the Maritime Silk Road and Sino-foreign cultural exchange published by the author domestically and internationally, totaling about 250,000 words. Most of these papers are the author's latest research findings from recent years or thematic academic reports presented at international conferences and during overseas lectures. They argue for the origins and historical development of the Maritime Silk Road in different periods, summarizing that it is not only a "economic trade route" for spreading silk, porcelain, and other commodities, a "friendly exchange route" for fostering friendship among nations, a "cultural exchange route" for disseminating the splendid cultures of various peoples, and a "benefit-to-humanity route" for spreading China's Four Great Inventions and scientific and technological exchanges, but also a "necessary path" for reviving China and promoting the current opening-up and economic takeoff of the country.