The book I feel obliged to recommend to all of you is The Silk Roads: A New Historyof
the World, written by Peter Frankopan, a world- acclaimed Oxford historian.The reading of
this book could awaken you to wider perspective on this bridge linking the East and the We
st.
The groundbreaking book sets readers on an extraordinary journey along theSilk Road
s, exploring the connections among people, trade, disease, war, and so on.