• China on the Map: Exploring the Belt and Road (English Edition) – From Ancient Silk Roads to Today’s Shared Projects
  • China on the Map: Exploring the Belt and Road (English Edition) – From Ancient Silk Roads to Today’s Shared Projects
  • China on the Map: Exploring the Belt and Road (English Edition) – From Ancient Silk Roads to Today’s Shared Projects
  • China on the Map: Exploring the Belt and Road (English Edition) – From Ancient Silk Roads to Today’s Shared Projects
  • China on the Map: Exploring the Belt and Road (English Edition) – From Ancient Silk Roads to Today’s Shared Projects
  • China on the Map: Exploring the Belt and Road (English Edition) – From Ancient Silk Roads to Today’s Shared Projects
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China on the Map: Exploring the Belt and Road (English Edition) – From Ancient Silk Roads to Today’s Shared Projects

China on the Map: Exploring the Belt and Road (English Edition) – From Ancient Silk Roads to Today’s Shared Projects

Zhang Qian, Dunhuang, Zheng He’s Voyages, the Six Economic Corridors, the Mombasa–Nairobi Railway and More — How Maps Connect 2,000 Years of Exchange Across Asia, Africa and Europe
This is not a policy paper, and it is not a travel guide to the countries along the Belt and Road. It is a map-driven journey through 2,000 years of exchange—starting with Zhang Qian’s mission and the overland routes through Xi’an, Dunhuang, and Baghdad, then the maritime routes from Guangzhou and Quanzhou to Zheng He’s voyages and the spice trade, and finally the modern projects that carry the same idea forward: Cambodia‘s Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone, the Maldives’ first cross-sea bridge, Kenya‘s Mombasa–Nairobi Railway, and a “magic rice” inventor in Madagascar. The maps and photographs do the guiding, and the text is written in clear, readable English for general readers. If you want to see how the old Silk Roads and today‘s Belt and Road connect across time and geography—rather than read a government white paper or a dense academic study—this is it.
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About This Book

The Belt and Road Initiative is one of the most ambitious infrastructure and diplomatic projects of our time — but its roots stretch back over two thousand years. Exploring the Belt and Road connects the dots.

Part of the China on the Map series by China Intercontinental Press, this book uses maps as its storytelling framework, guiding readers through the geography, history, and contemporary reality of the Silk Road and its modern revival.

What You’ll Find Inside

Part 1: The Overland Silk Road
Trace the footsteps of Zhang Qian, the Han dynasty envoy whose journeys opened the door between China and Central Asia. Visit Xi’an, the starting point of the ancient route. Learn how papermaking — one of China’s most transformative inventions — spread westward and changed world history-20-26.

Part 2: The Maritime Silk Road
Sail from Quanzhou, the great port of the Song and Yuan dynasties, to the Persian Gulf and the East African coast. Follow Zheng He’s legendary voyages. Understand how silk, spices, and silver connected China with the wider world long before modern globalization-26-35.

Part 3: The Belt and Road Today
See how the ancient routes are being reimagined. This section profiles real projects across Asia, Africa, and Europe — from Kenya’s Mombasa-Nairobi Railway to Sri Lanka’s harvests, from Ethiopia’s “Beijing Hospital” to the China-Europe Railway Express arriving in Duisburg, Germany

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