Just published in Open Access by Amsterdam University Press, and based on a conference organized by the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies in 2018, The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes. On the strength...
Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 5pm Trans-Regionalism and Economic Co-Dependency across the South China Sea Derek Thiam Soon Heng, Northern Arizona University 180 Doe Memorial Library
Throughout history, the South China Sea has been a maritime zone that saw primary economies of its littoral zones exercise influence over smaller, outlying economies by binding the...
Monday, December 3, 2018, 5 pm The History and Science of Paper in Manuscripts of Central Asia Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, University of Hamburg & University of Warsaw 180 Doe Memorial Library UC Berkeley
Manuscripts from the Silk Road have been used as a key source in the study of religions, literature, and the cultural history of Central Asia. However, they have hardly ever been viewed as...
Jack Meng-Tat Chia is a Senior Tutor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore and currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Born and raised in Singapore, he received his MA in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, and his PhD in History from Cornell University. He is currently working on his book manuscript...