The Silk Road and Chinese Trade

The International Dunhuang Project at The British Library
http://idp.bl.uk The Silkroad Foundation's extensive and authoritative site on Silk Road history, art and religion
http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html "History of Silk," article at the Silkroad Foundation
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/silkhistory.shtml "Buddhism and its Spread Along the Silk Road," article at the Silkroad Foundation
http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html

"The Rise and Fall of 15th Century Chinese Seapower," artlcle by Michael Bosworth
http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/china.htm

Books about The Silk Road Art and Chinese Maritime Exports

China 7000 Years of Discovery. A special exhibition on Chinese Inventions Produced by the China Science and Technology Museum in cooperation with the Ontario Science Center, The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, and the Pacific Science Center, Seattle. Beijing and Toronto,1982.Deng, Gang. Maritime Sector, Institutions, and Sea Power of Premodern China. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999.Deng, Gang, foreword by Ramon H. Myers. Chinese Maritime Activities and Socioeconomic Development, c. 2100 B.C.-1900 A.D. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1997.Hopkirk, Peter. Foreign Devils on the Silk Road. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.Tadao, Umesao and Sugimura Toh, eds. The Significance of Silk Roads in the History of Human Civilizations. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 1992.Vollmer, John, et. Al. Silk Roads, China Ships: An Exhibition of East-West Trade. Toronto: Royal Ontarion Museum, 1983.Whitfield, Roderick, et al. Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2000.Whitfield, Susan. Life Along the Silk Road. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Wriggins, Sally H. Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.