Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is briefly named Ning, with Yinchuan as its provincial seat. Located on “The Silk Road,” Ningxia was historically the important passage of transportation and ...

Using slides of objects from the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th to 7th Century, students will generate word maps that act as creative ...

A Tang Dynasty tomb unearthed in northwest China has shed new light on the lives and heritage of the Sogdians, ancient traders who played a vital role in connecting cultures along the Silk Road. The ...

The region of Gansu and Ningxia, caught between impassable mountains to the south and inhospitable ... Monks and Merchants tells the story of the crucial role this region played in the transformation ...

Including ruins revealing the artistry of ancient Chinese porcelain and cultural exchanges along the Silk Road, a total of 30 ...

Officials said the newly built Weizhou Grand Mosque in the Ningxia region had not been given ... China bans beards and veils in Xinjiang Risky road: China's missionaries follow Beijing west ...