SEMINARS

SEMINARS

These seminars are delivered in English by course leaders and local experts. They help you make the most of visits and excursions during the course:

  1. The city of Lanzhou: from its origins as a prominent city along the Silk Road to its role as a leading centre of technology and research
  2. The ancient Silk Road: a fascinating video journey along the trade routes that carried goods from East to West for hundreds of years.
  3. Trade with the world: silk, paper, gunpowder, spices, tea, and, above all, ideas, travelled across 4,000 miles.
  4. Looking to the future: science, technology and industry in modern China and claims that China and the Pacific Rim hold the key to the 21st Century.
  5. Early civilisation: the significance of the Yellow River in world culture, alongside the Nile, the Tigris and the Indus rivers.
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