Turpan is where pot-puffing warlock corpses gaze back at us through millennia, and Turpan Museum paints Turpan's Silk Road heritage as a mosaic of peoples.
The overseas exhibition tour for Feng Shaoxia's "Maritime Silk Road" oil paintings will debut at the National Gallery of Thailand in Bangkok at the start of July.
As a girl growing up in East China, Jiang Min always longed for an epic journey along the ancient Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns.
The ancient Maritime Silk Road's starting seaport imported a pantheon of faiths. The legacy survives not only in concrete but also in customs. Wang Kaihao reports in Quanzhou, Fujian province.
The ancient tradition of silk farming could be revived at Turpan as part of a project to restore exquisite clothing and other items up to 2,000 years old found in ancient tombs.
A Chinese cruise liner to ply the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road started its maiden voyage from the Beihai port in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday morning.
The growing interest in the Silk Road is prompting more tourism operators to take people to increasingly far-flung parts of the ancient route and a boom in cruises.
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