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The silk route is a network of paths connecting the heart of China to the mountains and deserts of Central Asia, eventually moving across the no-man's land of today's Afghanistan through Iran and finally to the eastward fringes of Europe. For centuries, it carried both goods and ideas: Chinese silk found its way west while Buddhism and Islam traveled in the opposite direction.
Rebiya Kadeer, China’s most well-known dissident, was at one time the richest and most powerful woman of the People’s Republic. But when she began to struggle for the rights of her people, the Uigurs, an Islamic minority in China, she became the most hated woman in the regime.
Georgetown University Associate Professor James Millward presents the first comprehensive history of Xinjiang, the vast central Eurasian region bordering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia, in his new book Eurasian Crossroads (Columbia University Press, 2007).
