The Silk Road: from Xi'an to Kashgar

A short history of the Silk Road

Facts for the traveller

Shaanxi Province

Gansu Province

Southern Gansu

Hexi Corridor

Xinjiang Uygur Autnomous Region

The southern Silk Road

The Karakoram Highway

Recommended reading

Index

Maps

Special topics

Excerpts. Evariste-Regis Huc and Joseph Gabet on finding a Tartary inn ; Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro on defusing propaganda ; John Pilkington on breaking down on the Silk Road ; C.P. Skrine on exotic banquets ; The ballad of Mulan ; Vikram Seth on cross-cultural relations ; Wu Ch'êng Ên on scriptures at a price ; William Dalrymple on a Uygur movie outing ; Mao Tun on praying for a silk harvest ; Mildred Cable on bed bugs and vemin.