Silk Road Resources

 

 

English for Tourism and Hospitality

 

 

 

Opening the Doors of History

‘Click’ to have a virtual tour of museums and art galleries in countries along the Silk Road. 

Strengthen your English reading skills and increase your vocabulary of tourism-related terms.

 

Silk Road Museums (Click for your desired country)

Afghanistan	Georgia	Kyrgyzstan	Pakistan	Thailand
Australia	Hong Kong	Lao PDR	the Philippines	Timor-Leste
Azerbaijan	India	Malaysia	Qatar	Turkey
Bangladesh	Indonesia	Maldives	Russia	Turkmenistan
Brunei	Iran	Mongolia	Samoa	the United Arab Emirates
Cambodia	Israel	Myanmar	Saudi Arabia	Uzbekistan
China	Jordan	Nepal	Singapore	Vanuatu
Cyprus	Kazakhstan	New Zealand	Sri Lanka	Vietnam
Fiji	Korea Republic (South Korea)	Oman	Tajikistan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• History of the Silk Road (China Travel Guide)
• The Silk Road (Ancient History Encylopedia)
• Silk Road History (China Tour Guide)
• Trading Horses for Silk. The Surprisingly Simple Origins of the Silk Road (National Geographic)
• The Silk Road in History (Penn Museum)
• The History of the Silk Road in China (China Highlights)
• The Silk Road. Connecting Peoples and Cultures (Smithsonian)
• About the Silk Road (UNESCO)
• Silk Road History (China Discovery)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• The Chinese Silk Road. Episode 1.The Journey Begins
• The Chinese Silk Road. Episode 2. Into the Desert
• The Chinese Silk Road. Episode 3. The End of the Road
• China’s New Silk Road (DW Documentary)

 

ABOUT THE ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT BANK AND CHINA’S ‘BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE’

• Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

• China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’

 

SILK ROAD RESOURCES

• Central Asia-Caucasus Institute. Silk Road Studies Program
  John Hopkins University and the Institute for Security and Development (Sweden)

• Association for Central Asian Civilizations and Silk Road Studies

• Georgetown University Silk Road Seminar

• University of California Berkley Silk Road Program

• The Silk Road Project

• A Photo Trip Along the Ancient Silk Road
  The Atlantic

• Kenyon College Silk Road Links

• the UNESCO Silk Road Online Platform

• UN World Tourism Organization Silk Road Program

• the Silk Road Foundation

• Silk Road Foundation Dunhuang Studies

• Silk Road Seattle
  the University of Washington
  

• International Dunhuang Project

 

INSTITUTIONS OFFERING SILK ROAD STUDIES

CHINA

• Beijing Foreign Studies University. The Silk Road Research Institute
• Renmin University
• Xi’an Jiaotong University. University Alliance of the New Silk Road
• Beijing Center for Chinese Studies