The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what exactly was the Silk Road? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. Academic and author Valerie Hansen questions these ideas in her book, The Silk Road: A New History. In conversation with historian, author, and Festival Co-Director William Dalrymple, Hansen introduces us to a new way of looking at The Silk Road and challenges our very perception of history.
Valerie Hansen :- teaches world and Chinese history at Yale University. Her two most recent books are The Silk Road: A New History with Documents (2017), and The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World-and Globalization Began (2020), which has been translated into fifteen languages so far.
William Dalrymple :- is the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapucinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His most recent book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, was a finalist for the Cundill Prize for History, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has been awarded five honorary doctorates, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently an Honorary Bodleian fellow. In 2018, he was presented with the prestigious President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
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