Stories of silk and paper.

From: World Literature Today | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: Grotenhuis, Elizabeth Ten | Copyright information

THE SILK ROAD refers to a network of trade routes that extended from Japan and China in East Asia across Central Asia, south to India, and west across the Iranian plateau and other lands to the Mediterranean. People, goods, and ideas had been traveling across this landmass for millennia, but what we call the "historic Silk Road" was at its height from about the second century B.C.E., when a Chinese envoy traveled into Central Asia, until the fourteenth century C.E., when the Mongol...

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