Introduction to the Silk Road
A Road to Chinese-type Modernization I am going to share with all of you a story of Chinese-style modernization. Nowadays, a shopper online simply clicks a product in New York orders, electronics made in Beijing can be transported across the ocean within days by cargo plane. Cottons have been planted all over the world. Everyone could wear comfortable clothes made from it. In fact, all these things we take for granted are obtained through trade and exchange. Exchange itself is far older than we think, reaching back over two thousand years, along a five-thousand-mile stretch road known as the silk road in China. The silk road wasn't a single road but a network of multiple routes that gradually emerged over centurie s connecting to various settlements and to each other thread by thread In this story, Ambassadors and merchants were sent towards Persia and India to trade silk and jade i n the wester...