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Was there a Silk Road?
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Is the 'Silk Road' a meaningful term? Is it being used simply to
provide a historical legitimacy for our preoccupation with the dichotomy of east
and west, the rising power oflndia and China and the waning of Europe, and our
ambivalence towards globalisation? If it ever had any descriptive or analytic
force for scholarship, is this now lost and should we discard the term entirely
in our scholarly discourse as misleading at best and leave it for the marketers
to exploit as a symbol of luxury and exoticism? This article argues that
although the term 'Silk Road' has become a widely used portmanteau term, with
apt clarification it is still a meaningful term for scholarship.
Title: Was there a Silk Road?
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Is the 'Silk Road' a meaningful term? Is it being used simply to
provide a historical legitimacy for our preoccupation with the dichotomy of east
and west, the rising power oflndia and China and the waning of Europe, and our
ambivalence towards globalisation? If it ever had any descriptive or analytic
force for scholarship, is this now lost and should we discard the term entirely
in our scholarly discourse as misleading at best and leave it for the marketers
to exploit as a symbol of luxury and exoticism? This article argues that
although the term 'Silk Road' has become a widely used portmanteau term, with
apt clarification it is still a meaningful term for scholarship.
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