Narratives of various themes to understand Silk Road a little deeper.

Silk Road Narratives

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New! "Silk Road in Rare Books" is now compatible with IIIF to enable browsing of high resolution images.
2008-11-27
English translation of all 10 stories are revised.
2010-04-14
English translation of all 10 stories are completed.
2008-11-27
We started the translation of all 10 stories into English. We are planning to release two stories every month.
2007-09-18
The latest story is added (written in Japanese), and the series completed with 10 stories.
2005-12-10
The site is open to the public (only in Japanese).
2005-02-20
The eleventh story "Sogdian Silk Discoverd in the Silk Road" (Meicun LIN) is released, and all 11 stories are completed.
2007-07-06
We started the series from "Vicissitudes of Civilization of Central Asia" (Meicun LIN)
2006-06-01

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