Silk Road Research Centers
For more in-depth coverage of Silk Road research, visit Silk Road University's sister site:
www.silkroadresearchcenter.org
www.silkroadresearchcenter.org
Draft: April 12, 2017 - It is certain this Directory is not complete.
CAMBODIA
On June 13, Prime Minister Hun Sen and China’s Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo officially opened the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Research Center during a Royal University of Phnom Penh graduation day. The purpose of this center is to strengthen relations and cooperation between Cambodia and China. The Maritime Silk Road Research Center was established by the Department of International Studies of the Royal University of Phnom Penh and is supported by China’s embassy in Cambodia.
Khmer Times Sok Chan sat down with Mey Kalyan, a senior advisor to the Supreme National Economic Council and Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Royal University of Phnom Penh to talk about the center on how it benefits Cambodia, how it could boost the relationship between Cambodia and China and the economic aspects Cambodia can expect to see.
http://www.ecns.cn/2016/06-13/214137.shtml
CANADA
Montreal
The Silk Road Institute is dedicated to promoting thought provoking discussions and creative artistic expressions, with an emphasis on cross-cultural exchange and building bridges across Montreal’s diverse communities.
Through speaker events, spoken word, music, monthly discussions, photography, and art, we hope to inspire, connect, and build bridges across Montreal’s multicultural backgrounds.
We aspire to provide a welcoming space for Montrealers from all backgrounds, encouraging members, performers and artists to respect the cultural and religious sensibilities of our diverse audience.
http://silkroadinstitute.ca/en/#home
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CHINA
BEIJING FOREIGN STUDIES UNIVERSITY
BFSU establishes Silk Road Research Institute
http://global.bfsu.edu.cn/en/?p=645
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-01/12/content_19298647.htm
Beijing Foreign Studies University established (BFSU) a Silk Road Research Institute on Saturday, aiming to provide intellectual support to the country's strategic plan to better connect China and the rest of the world by land and sea.
The institute, which received a million yuan ($167,000) donation from an enterprise, will built on the university's strengths to better serve the country's "economic belt along the Silk Road" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road".
Peng Long, the university president, will be the director of the institute.
BFSU with 64 language programs is an essential center to study foreign languages and international relations.
http://global.bfsu.edu.cn/en/?p=645
The Silk Road Research Institute of Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) was founded in 2015, with Dr. Hsin-Kang Chang, former president of City University of Hong Kong as its honorary director.
The Silk Road Research Institute aims to inform China’s Belt and Road Initiatives and serve as a bridge between China and the rest of the world by taking advantage of the multilingual and cross-cultural teaching and research expertise of BFSU.
The Research Institute aims to build itself into a think tank for the Belt and Road Initiatives and focus on thematic studies to tell China stories, spread China voices and take Chinese culture to the world. The Institute attempts to promote collaborative innovation and cross-border integration with countries along the Silk Road, carry out joint research on China’s further reform and development, and offer training and advices on relevant issues in this regard. We will strive to create a platform for cultural communications between China and countries along the Silk Road so as to contribute to the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiatives.
Office for International Exchange and Cooperation
0086-10-88816715
ieco@bfsu.edu.cn
General Administrative Offices
0086-10-88816215
bwxzb@bfsu.edu.cn
Beijing - Silk Road Art Research and Creativity Center
An art institution is founded at Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts to explore and revitalize the cultural heritage of ancient Silk Road.
The Silk Road Art Research and Creativity Center echoes the Chinese government's ambitious proposal to develop the New Silk Road in the 21st century. It teams up research sources at and outside CAFA, with an effort to study the aesthetic evolution of the civilizations along the Silk Road. It also encourages artistic creations that preserve and incorporate cultural heritages of these cultures.
The center seeks for innovative mechanisms to restore traditional arts, in partnership with city authorities of Quanzhou, in Fujian province, Datong, in Shanxi province, Luoyang, in Henan province and Turpan, in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, which played an important role in the ancient Silk Road and maritime Silk Road. CAFA started to research the artistic traditions along the ancient Silk Road as early as the 1950s. Famed artists-cum-teachers such as Wu Zuoren and Dong Xiwen traveled extensively in Dunhuang in Gansu province, Xinjiang and Tibet autonomous region.
Central Academy of Fine Arts
Address: No.8 Hua Jia Di Nan St., Chao Yang District, Beijing, P. R. China, Zip: 100102
Website: http://www.cafa.edu.cn/
News article: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/beijing/2015-06/26/content_21113505.htm
International office
Tel: +86-10-6477-1018
Fax: +86-10-6477-1136
email: xujia@cafa.edu.cn
Silk Road Chamber of International Commerce
http://www.srcic.com/about/leadership/
http://www.srcic.com/membership/
http://www.srcic.com/about/constitution/
info@srcic.com (H.K. Office)
secretariat@srcic.com (Xi’an Office)
Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
+86 10 8358 0000
projects@aiib.org
media@aiib.org
information@aiib.org
https://www.aiib.org/en/contact/index.html
XI’AN
Xian Jiaotong University
Collaborative Innovation Center of Silk Road Economic Belt Research started by XJTU
2015-01-23 [343]
In January 22, XJTU set up the Collaborative Innovation Center of Silk Road Economic Belt Research, joined by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Commerce Department as well as Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The center aims to forge itself into a world-class think tank focusing on the cooperation and innovation research in fields of law, politics, society and culture related to Silk Road Rconomic Belt, cultivating outstanding talents for China and international society. The high-end international forum on the Academic Belt of Silk Road was held correspondingly. http://en.xjtu.edu.cn/info/1044/1572.htm
They also publish: Silk Road Studies in International Economic Law; The Series aims to promote international rule of law by publishing volumes which thoroughly analyze the state of the field, and offer a global range of perspectives. Silk Road Studies in International and Comparative Law will be highly relevant to practitioners and scholars alike. The series has published an average of one volume per year since 2014. http://www.brill.com/cn/products/series/silk-road-studies-international-economic-law
LANZHOU – Gansu Province
The Silk Road Economic Belt Research Center
The Silk Road Economic Belt Research Center was founded so as to facilitate exchanges and cooperation with universities and scientific research institutions along the Silk Road Economic Belt, and be committed to the construction of new specialized "think tank" needed by our country to promote the development of Silk Road economic belt.
International Students Affairs Office, Confucius Institute Office and Silk Road Economic Belt Research Center are all affiliated to School of International Cultural Exchange.
https://www.mbastudies.com/universities/China/Lanzhou-University/
http://en.lzu.edu.cn/content/395.html
Shanghai International Studies University (Not a program, but a knowledgeable professor)
Ma Lirong, Silk Radiology Studies: An Interpretation Based on China's Humanistic Diplomacy, Current Affairs Press, September 2014
Covering about 8,000 kilometers and a series of trade and cultural transmissions, the Silk Road was an interconnected network connecting Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe. Recently, China updated this term to the "new Silk Road" and launched a corresponding strategy, which includes the establishment of the Silk Road economic belt as well as the Maritime Silk Road, which is known as the "one belt, one road" strategy.
This strategy has received an active response from many countries along the road and once again made the Silk Road a global focus. Studies on the topic have surged and a new discipline called "Silk Roadology" has emerged.
Ma Lirong, professor and deputy director of the Middle East Studies Institute under Shanghai International Studies University, recently published a book, Silk Roadology Studies: An Interpretation Based on China's Humanistic Diplomacy, in which she discusses this newly emerged discipline from the perspective of the humanities.
Ma highlights the importance of humanistic diplomacy, saying that the essence of international exchange is the communication and contests between different humanistic values because humanistic diplomacy is the most direct and common means of communication. Hence, the Silk Road, in Ma's eyes, is not only a public good, but also a cultural route.
Currently, problems, including unclear strategic intentions, a distorted national image and a lack of capability in providing public goods, confine China in carrying out its new Silk Road strategy.
Unlike Western powers such as the US or the UK, who control global media discourse and have an advantage due to the wide use of English, China is just an emerging country without media discourse control or a heritage of colonization on the global stage.
Against such backdrop, Ma points out that humanistic diplomacy can help China in creating a healthy soft environment for the carrying out of its new Silk Road strategy. Guided by humanistic diplomacy, the relationships between China and countries along the road will be more like partnerships instead of alliances, which seems much less threatening and more easily understood. Actually, since China put forward the new Silk Road strategy, external misunderstandings and suspicions have become increasingly rampant. Some Western analysts claimed that the new Silk Road strategy represents China's "ambitious" goal of economic expansion. In such a case, Ma's points unconventionally shift the focus of the strategy from economics to cultural communication. Nonetheless, the building of the "one belt, one road" is a grand strategy and its implementation process calls for detailed plans and research. Therefore, it remains to be seen whether humanistic diplomacy can really play a substantive role. http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/890368.shtml
http://mideast.shisu.edu.cn/_upload/article/81/a0/acbdac7c4cd2bc5c7c19261b24f8/316f4445-dcf9-4a69-b1c8-0b689c706abd.pdf
HONG KONG
Hong Kong Silk Road Economic Development Research Center (Mostly banking and big money projects)
http://www.silkroadresearch.org/
China Exploration and Research Society **
SILK ROAD ARCHAEOLOGY
Since the invention of the Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR), CERS has been using such images for archaeological exploration. The initial images came from a shuttle flight in 1981 (SIR-A), while others were taken by two flights in 1994 (SIR-C). Numerous shuttle passes over western China resulted in images covering large tracts of southern Xinjiang. NASA has made these images available to CERS for analysis and future application in identifying lost settlements along the ancient Silk Road.
http://www.cers.org.hk/index.php/en/expeditions/silk-road-archaeology
KYRGYZSTAN
Silk Road Research Center of International Ataturk Alatoo University
1/8 Ankara Street, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Hot line: +996 312 63 14 25
Tel: (996 – 312) 63 14 26 ,ext 1024
Fax: (996 – 312) 63 04 09
Email: silkroad@iaau.edu.kg
http://silkroad.iaau.edu.kg/
Visiting Scholar Program: http://silkroad.iaau.edu.kg/?q=en/visiting-scholars-program
Review volunteer position:
http://silkroad.iaau.edu.kg/?q=en/professor/call-reviewerssilk-road-research-center-seeking-scholars-interested-serving-our-volunteer
The International Atatürk-Alatoo University is a private university located in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. English is the primary medium of instruction at the university. Wikipedia
Address: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Phone: +996 312 631 425
Founded: 1996
PAKISTAN
Islamabad – Silk Road Center
http://www.silkroadcentre.org/Our-Leadership.php
https://www.facebook.com/silkroadcentre/
TURKEY
I couldn’t find a specific "Silk Road Research Center" in Turkey… but found several close parallels.
International Turkic Academy (TWESCO)
HISTORY AND MISSION
At the IX summit of the Heads of the Turkic Speaking States held in Nahchivan, Azerbaijan, on 3 October 2009, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed to set up an international research center tasked with conducting researches on the Turkic world.
On 28 May 2010, the Turkic Academy was founded at the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation in the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Presidents of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Turkey, Abdullah Gul, and well-established turkologist-scholars from the USA, Russia (Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Yakuti), Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine attended the opening ceremony of the unique research center.
Today, in Istanbul Head of the International Turkic Academy (TWESCO) Darkhan Kydyrali got an International Award "For service to the Turkic World".
The Award presented by the Silk Road Strategy research center and The Silk Road Magazine was awarded at the evening devoted to the "Best People of the Year Awards".
The Event was attended by outstanding public and cultural figures, intellectuals from ten countries of the world.
Organizers presented D.Kydyrali's Award to the permanent executive secretary of the TWESCO A.Kessikbayev.
http://www.twesco.org/en/news/glava_akademii_udostoilsya_mezhdunarodnoy_nagrady/?lang=en
Central Asia Productivity Research Center (CAPRC)
Email Address: CAPRC.org@gmail.com
Website: CAPRC.org
https://pressreleasejet.com/news/focus-on-turkeys-economy-and-investment-2017.html
The British Institute at Ankara supports, enables and encourages research in Turkey and the Black Sea region in a wide range of fields including archaeology, ancient and modern history, heritage management, social sciences and contemporary issues in public policy and political sciences. Founded in 1948, the BIAA was incorporated in the 1956 cultural agreement between the Republic of Turkey and the United Kingdom. The BIAA is one of the British International Research Institutes (BIRI). It has offices in Ankara and London, and a dedicated staff of experts from a wide variety of academic and cultural backgrounds.
Claire McCafferty (London)
10 Carlton House Terrace
London
SW1Y 5AH
Telephone: 00 44 20 7969 5204
Fax: 00 44 20 7969 5401
biaa@britac.ac.uk
Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
The aim of SRII is to promote academic research on Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia, particularly in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Among the many fields of study represented at the Institute are Archaeology, Art and Architectural History, Classical and Byzantine Studies, Educational Studies, General History, with the emphasis on Ottoman and modern Turkish history, Political Science, including International Relations, Religion, Social Anthropology, Sociology as well as West and Central Asian Languages and Literatures.
http://www.srii.org/
USA
Central Asian Productivity Research Center http://www.caprc.org/
In May 1999, the initiative to develop the “Central Asian Productivity Research Center” was proposed by Professor Harry C. Lepinske to academic, government, and business leaders in Turkey and Azerbaijan. The initial goals were to concentrate on the needs for economic development in Eurasia and the Caucasus Regions.
Working quickly, in cooperation with a small group of volunteers, the concept spread throughout the region. In January 2000, the concept of this strategic alliance was solidified, and the program moved forward. The initial focus for CAPRC was to operate as a strategic alliance assisting with economic development programs within the region. Today as a mature respected international project, it continues to expand its primary focus.
This site will provide an opportunity for communications between the various elements of this strategic alliance. Please use the following links to explore the many resources available from this site. In order to improve productivity, duplication of information will be kept to a minimum, links to existing information will be provided. To begin the exploration, visit one of the links listed on the left hand side of this page. http://www.caprc.org/
The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and the Silk Road Studies Program constitute a joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center. The Center is independent and privately funded, and has offices in Washington, D.C., and Stockholm, Sweden. The Center is affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, and with the Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy. It is the first Center of its kind in both Europe and North America, and is firmly established as a leading focus of research and policy worldwide, serving a large and diverse community of analysts, scholars, policy-watchers, business leaders, journalists, and students. http://www.silkroadstudies.org/
The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program
The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program focuses on issues facing the region for policy-makers and academics alike. https://www.facebook.com/CACI.Silkroad
The Silk Road Studies Program focuses mainly on the western part of Eurasia, including Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea region. It incorporates the Turkey Initiative. Together with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, the Silk Road Studies Program forms a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center. It is the first Center of its kind in Europe and North America and is today firmly established as a leading center for research and policy worldwide, serving a large and diverse community of analysts, scholars, policy-watchers, business leaders and journalists.
http://isdp.eu/programs/silk-road-studies-program/
Council on East Asian Studies' Silk Road Studies Project
The collection serves as a multi-disciplinary resource with relevance to students and faculty working in the fields of art and archaeology, religious studies, history, East Asian languages and literatures, Central Asian and Islamic studies.
http://web.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/yale-silk-road
Inventing Silk Road Studies*
The UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) presents Tamara Chin. She will introduce the modern idea of the Silk Road as a term first coined by a German geographer in 1877, and then address the idea of Silk Road studies as an academic field.
Since the 1980s, the term Silk Road has had a popular and academic appeal, suggestive of an era of premodern globalization in which China played a central role. Silk Road books, journals, exhibitions, conferences, and institutes are increasingly commonplace across Asia, North America, and Europe. The talk introduces the modern idea of the Silk Road as a term first coined by a German geographer in 1877. It sketches the early translation and circulation of the term in colonial geography, before its re-appropration in diplomatic discourses after the 1955 Bandung Conference and Nixon’s 1972 visit to China. The talk then addresses the idea of Silk Road studies as an academic field. Despite a general familiarity with what now falls under Silk Road studies (e.g., Central Asian art; Dunhuang manuscripts; contemporary Chinese geopolitics), insufficient attention has been paid to its potential parameters or usefulness. I ask: as what kind of heuristic device has the Silk Road served, and in which disciplines? Is a more defined or institutionalized field of Silk Road studies desirable? If so, which model should it follow, and which other fields should it position itself with or against (e.g. Area Studies, postcolonial studies, comparative literature)?
http://china.usc.edu/calendar/inventing-silk-road-studies
Tamara Chin is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. She trained in Greek, Latin and classical Chinese literatures (Harvard BA Classics and Literature 1997; UC Berkeley PhD Comparative Literature 2005) and she is currently completing a book on the impact of Han dynasty imperial expansion on Chinese literary form.
Panelist/Discussant: Michael Nylan, History, UC Berkeley
Tamara_Chin@Brown.edu http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/visiting-research-scholars/previous/2008-2009/tamara-chin
The Association for Central Asian Civilizations and Silk Road Studies (ACANSRS) is a private non-profit organization of scholars and others interested in the study of Central Asian civilizations and the Silk Road. The association aims to promote research on Central Asia from antiquity to modern times through sponsoring events, publications, film-making, and educational trips to the region.
ACANSRS takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Central Asia and the Silk Road. Fields of interest include history, linguistics, philology, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, musicology, art, and cultural studies.
ACANSRS’s area of interest, Central Asia, is comprised of both Eastern and Western Central Asia including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as well as Xinjiang, Mongolia, and Tibet. The Silk Road is broadly defined as the legendary trade routes across Eurasia that connected the great civilizations of Europe and Asia in antiquity.
ACANSRS is a Massachusetts nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of multidisciplinary research on Central Asia. ACANSRS has been recognized as a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code since December 3, 2010, the date of its incorporation. Donations to organizations exempt under section 501(c)(3) are deductible from federal income tax.
http://acansrs.org/
University of Kansas
Sponsored By:
Center for East Asian Studies
Bailey Hall Room 202
1440 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence, KS 66045
Fax: 785-864-5034
ceas@ku.edu
785-864-3849
https://silkroad.ku.edu/faculty
Columbia University Silk Road Health Project
http://beta.global.columbia.edu/research/silk-road-health-project
http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/silkroadhealth/contact/
Association on Asian Studies (Has a number of respected publications)
http://www.asian-studies.org/About/Contact
U.S. Based Silk Road music organization
https://www.silkroadproject.org/about-us#board
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UZBEKISTAN
Tashkent
Ikuo Hirayama International Caravanserai of Culture of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan is a marvelous Silk Road research center.
http://www.visituzbekistan.travel/sightseeing/tashkent/caravanserai-of-culture/
I described my visit there in this story: http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1291
The people there were very kind and helpful, and certainly knowledgeable in all aspects of Silk Road history, culture, geography, archeology, literature, etc. Many thanks to Mr. Farrukh Usmanov, Director of the Academy, Mr. Sheyko Konstanteen Alexandrovich, Chief Curator and Archeologist in charge of many digs around Uzbekistan and my good friend Mirzahid, a 5th Dan in Jhoon Rhee Taekwondo who helped with translations
Center for Economic Research
The project "Silk Road Economic Belt of the" - one of China's initiatives, political and economic goals of which are concentrated on the creation of seven "zones": transport, energy, investment, information, scientific and technical, agricultural and tourism. For Uzbekistan this project is interesting from the point of view of maximizing the benefits from the sale of long-term development objectives: promoting sustainable economic growth and employment.
http://cer.uz/en/
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR SILK ROAD STUDIES
UNITED NATIONS
UN World Tourism Organization - The UNWTO Silk Road Programme is a collaborative initiative designed to enhance sustainable tourism development along the historic Silk Road route. It aims to maximize the benefits of tourism development for local Silk Road communities, while stimulating investment and promoting the conservation of the route's natural and cultural heritage. Importantly, it is working to foster greater co- operation between Silk Road countries and regions, creating new business opportunities while working towards a more seamless and memorable Silk Road travel experience.
http://silkroad.unwto.org/
http://silkroad.unwto.org/publication/introduction-silk-road-programme
UNESCO has an online Silk Road online platform, with contact information for people in member countries: https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/international-network-silk-road-online-platform
Front page (I think) https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/file/researchcenterofichhto6jpg
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2017 News Update on China’s One Belt, One Road developments:
http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/Article/3663952/banking-and-capital-markets-foreign-exchange/china-updates-the-silk-road.html#.WOoZ80WGPIU
CAMBODIA
On June 13, Prime Minister Hun Sen and China’s Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo officially opened the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Research Center during a Royal University of Phnom Penh graduation day. The purpose of this center is to strengthen relations and cooperation between Cambodia and China. The Maritime Silk Road Research Center was established by the Department of International Studies of the Royal University of Phnom Penh and is supported by China’s embassy in Cambodia.
Khmer Times Sok Chan sat down with Mey Kalyan, a senior advisor to the Supreme National Economic Council and Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Royal University of Phnom Penh to talk about the center on how it benefits Cambodia, how it could boost the relationship between Cambodia and China and the economic aspects Cambodia can expect to see.
http://www.ecns.cn/2016/06-13/214137.shtml
CANADA
Montreal
The Silk Road Institute is dedicated to promoting thought provoking discussions and creative artistic expressions, with an emphasis on cross-cultural exchange and building bridges across Montreal’s diverse communities.
Through speaker events, spoken word, music, monthly discussions, photography, and art, we hope to inspire, connect, and build bridges across Montreal’s multicultural backgrounds.
We aspire to provide a welcoming space for Montrealers from all backgrounds, encouraging members, performers and artists to respect the cultural and religious sensibilities of our diverse audience.
http://silkroadinstitute.ca/en/#home
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CHINA
BEIJING FOREIGN STUDIES UNIVERSITY
BFSU establishes Silk Road Research Institute
http://global.bfsu.edu.cn/en/?p=645
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-01/12/content_19298647.htm
Beijing Foreign Studies University established (BFSU) a Silk Road Research Institute on Saturday, aiming to provide intellectual support to the country's strategic plan to better connect China and the rest of the world by land and sea.
The institute, which received a million yuan ($167,000) donation from an enterprise, will built on the university's strengths to better serve the country's "economic belt along the Silk Road" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road".
Peng Long, the university president, will be the director of the institute.
BFSU with 64 language programs is an essential center to study foreign languages and international relations.
http://global.bfsu.edu.cn/en/?p=645
The Silk Road Research Institute of Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) was founded in 2015, with Dr. Hsin-Kang Chang, former president of City University of Hong Kong as its honorary director.
The Silk Road Research Institute aims to inform China’s Belt and Road Initiatives and serve as a bridge between China and the rest of the world by taking advantage of the multilingual and cross-cultural teaching and research expertise of BFSU.
The Research Institute aims to build itself into a think tank for the Belt and Road Initiatives and focus on thematic studies to tell China stories, spread China voices and take Chinese culture to the world. The Institute attempts to promote collaborative innovation and cross-border integration with countries along the Silk Road, carry out joint research on China’s further reform and development, and offer training and advices on relevant issues in this regard. We will strive to create a platform for cultural communications between China and countries along the Silk Road so as to contribute to the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiatives.
Office for International Exchange and Cooperation
0086-10-88816715
ieco@bfsu.edu.cn
General Administrative Offices
0086-10-88816215
bwxzb@bfsu.edu.cn
Beijing - Silk Road Art Research and Creativity Center
An art institution is founded at Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts to explore and revitalize the cultural heritage of ancient Silk Road.
The Silk Road Art Research and Creativity Center echoes the Chinese government's ambitious proposal to develop the New Silk Road in the 21st century. It teams up research sources at and outside CAFA, with an effort to study the aesthetic evolution of the civilizations along the Silk Road. It also encourages artistic creations that preserve and incorporate cultural heritages of these cultures.
The center seeks for innovative mechanisms to restore traditional arts, in partnership with city authorities of Quanzhou, in Fujian province, Datong, in Shanxi province, Luoyang, in Henan province and Turpan, in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, which played an important role in the ancient Silk Road and maritime Silk Road. CAFA started to research the artistic traditions along the ancient Silk Road as early as the 1950s. Famed artists-cum-teachers such as Wu Zuoren and Dong Xiwen traveled extensively in Dunhuang in Gansu province, Xinjiang and Tibet autonomous region.
Central Academy of Fine Arts
Address: No.8 Hua Jia Di Nan St., Chao Yang District, Beijing, P. R. China, Zip: 100102
Website: http://www.cafa.edu.cn/
News article: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/beijing/2015-06/26/content_21113505.htm
International office
Tel: +86-10-6477-1018
Fax: +86-10-6477-1136
email: xujia@cafa.edu.cn
Silk Road Chamber of International Commerce
http://www.srcic.com/about/leadership/
http://www.srcic.com/membership/
http://www.srcic.com/about/constitution/
info@srcic.com (H.K. Office)
secretariat@srcic.com (Xi’an Office)
Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
+86 10 8358 0000
projects@aiib.org
media@aiib.org
information@aiib.org
https://www.aiib.org/en/contact/index.html
XI’AN
Xian Jiaotong University
Collaborative Innovation Center of Silk Road Economic Belt Research started by XJTU
2015-01-23 [343]
In January 22, XJTU set up the Collaborative Innovation Center of Silk Road Economic Belt Research, joined by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Commerce Department as well as Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The center aims to forge itself into a world-class think tank focusing on the cooperation and innovation research in fields of law, politics, society and culture related to Silk Road Rconomic Belt, cultivating outstanding talents for China and international society. The high-end international forum on the Academic Belt of Silk Road was held correspondingly. http://en.xjtu.edu.cn/info/1044/1572.htm
They also publish: Silk Road Studies in International Economic Law; The Series aims to promote international rule of law by publishing volumes which thoroughly analyze the state of the field, and offer a global range of perspectives. Silk Road Studies in International and Comparative Law will be highly relevant to practitioners and scholars alike. The series has published an average of one volume per year since 2014. http://www.brill.com/cn/products/series/silk-road-studies-international-economic-law
LANZHOU – Gansu Province
The Silk Road Economic Belt Research Center
The Silk Road Economic Belt Research Center was founded so as to facilitate exchanges and cooperation with universities and scientific research institutions along the Silk Road Economic Belt, and be committed to the construction of new specialized "think tank" needed by our country to promote the development of Silk Road economic belt.
International Students Affairs Office, Confucius Institute Office and Silk Road Economic Belt Research Center are all affiliated to School of International Cultural Exchange.
https://www.mbastudies.com/universities/China/Lanzhou-University/
http://en.lzu.edu.cn/content/395.html
Shanghai International Studies University (Not a program, but a knowledgeable professor)
Ma Lirong, Silk Radiology Studies: An Interpretation Based on China's Humanistic Diplomacy, Current Affairs Press, September 2014
Covering about 8,000 kilometers and a series of trade and cultural transmissions, the Silk Road was an interconnected network connecting Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe. Recently, China updated this term to the "new Silk Road" and launched a corresponding strategy, which includes the establishment of the Silk Road economic belt as well as the Maritime Silk Road, which is known as the "one belt, one road" strategy.
This strategy has received an active response from many countries along the road and once again made the Silk Road a global focus. Studies on the topic have surged and a new discipline called "Silk Roadology" has emerged.
Ma Lirong, professor and deputy director of the Middle East Studies Institute under Shanghai International Studies University, recently published a book, Silk Roadology Studies: An Interpretation Based on China's Humanistic Diplomacy, in which she discusses this newly emerged discipline from the perspective of the humanities.
Ma highlights the importance of humanistic diplomacy, saying that the essence of international exchange is the communication and contests between different humanistic values because humanistic diplomacy is the most direct and common means of communication. Hence, the Silk Road, in Ma's eyes, is not only a public good, but also a cultural route.
Currently, problems, including unclear strategic intentions, a distorted national image and a lack of capability in providing public goods, confine China in carrying out its new Silk Road strategy.
Unlike Western powers such as the US or the UK, who control global media discourse and have an advantage due to the wide use of English, China is just an emerging country without media discourse control or a heritage of colonization on the global stage.
Against such backdrop, Ma points out that humanistic diplomacy can help China in creating a healthy soft environment for the carrying out of its new Silk Road strategy. Guided by humanistic diplomacy, the relationships between China and countries along the road will be more like partnerships instead of alliances, which seems much less threatening and more easily understood. Actually, since China put forward the new Silk Road strategy, external misunderstandings and suspicions have become increasingly rampant. Some Western analysts claimed that the new Silk Road strategy represents China's "ambitious" goal of economic expansion. In such a case, Ma's points unconventionally shift the focus of the strategy from economics to cultural communication. Nonetheless, the building of the "one belt, one road" is a grand strategy and its implementation process calls for detailed plans and research. Therefore, it remains to be seen whether humanistic diplomacy can really play a substantive role. http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/890368.shtml
http://mideast.shisu.edu.cn/_upload/article/81/a0/acbdac7c4cd2bc5c7c19261b24f8/316f4445-dcf9-4a69-b1c8-0b689c706abd.pdf
HONG KONG
Hong Kong Silk Road Economic Development Research Center (Mostly banking and big money projects)
http://www.silkroadresearch.org/
China Exploration and Research Society **
SILK ROAD ARCHAEOLOGY
Since the invention of the Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR), CERS has been using such images for archaeological exploration. The initial images came from a shuttle flight in 1981 (SIR-A), while others were taken by two flights in 1994 (SIR-C). Numerous shuttle passes over western China resulted in images covering large tracts of southern Xinjiang. NASA has made these images available to CERS for analysis and future application in identifying lost settlements along the ancient Silk Road.
http://www.cers.org.hk/index.php/en/expeditions/silk-road-archaeology
KYRGYZSTAN
Silk Road Research Center of International Ataturk Alatoo University
1/8 Ankara Street, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Hot line: +996 312 63 14 25
Tel: (996 – 312) 63 14 26 ,ext 1024
Fax: (996 – 312) 63 04 09
Email: silkroad@iaau.edu.kg
http://silkroad.iaau.edu.kg/
Visiting Scholar Program: http://silkroad.iaau.edu.kg/?q=en/visiting-scholars-program
Review volunteer position:
http://silkroad.iaau.edu.kg/?q=en/professor/call-reviewerssilk-road-research-center-seeking-scholars-interested-serving-our-volunteer
The International Atatürk-Alatoo University is a private university located in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. English is the primary medium of instruction at the university. Wikipedia
Address: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Phone: +996 312 631 425
Founded: 1996
PAKISTAN
Islamabad – Silk Road Center
http://www.silkroadcentre.org/Our-Leadership.php
https://www.facebook.com/silkroadcentre/
TURKEY
I couldn’t find a specific "Silk Road Research Center" in Turkey… but found several close parallels.
International Turkic Academy (TWESCO)
HISTORY AND MISSION
At the IX summit of the Heads of the Turkic Speaking States held in Nahchivan, Azerbaijan, on 3 October 2009, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed to set up an international research center tasked with conducting researches on the Turkic world.
On 28 May 2010, the Turkic Academy was founded at the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation in the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Presidents of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Turkey, Abdullah Gul, and well-established turkologist-scholars from the USA, Russia (Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Yakuti), Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine attended the opening ceremony of the unique research center.
Today, in Istanbul Head of the International Turkic Academy (TWESCO) Darkhan Kydyrali got an International Award "For service to the Turkic World".
The Award presented by the Silk Road Strategy research center and The Silk Road Magazine was awarded at the evening devoted to the "Best People of the Year Awards".
The Event was attended by outstanding public and cultural figures, intellectuals from ten countries of the world.
Organizers presented D.Kydyrali's Award to the permanent executive secretary of the TWESCO A.Kessikbayev.
http://www.twesco.org/en/news/glava_akademii_udostoilsya_mezhdunarodnoy_nagrady/?lang=en
Central Asia Productivity Research Center (CAPRC)
Email Address: CAPRC.org@gmail.com
Website: CAPRC.org
https://pressreleasejet.com/news/focus-on-turkeys-economy-and-investment-2017.html
The British Institute at Ankara supports, enables and encourages research in Turkey and the Black Sea region in a wide range of fields including archaeology, ancient and modern history, heritage management, social sciences and contemporary issues in public policy and political sciences. Founded in 1948, the BIAA was incorporated in the 1956 cultural agreement between the Republic of Turkey and the United Kingdom. The BIAA is one of the British International Research Institutes (BIRI). It has offices in Ankara and London, and a dedicated staff of experts from a wide variety of academic and cultural backgrounds.
Claire McCafferty (London)
10 Carlton House Terrace
London
SW1Y 5AH
Telephone: 00 44 20 7969 5204
Fax: 00 44 20 7969 5401
biaa@britac.ac.uk
Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
The aim of SRII is to promote academic research on Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia, particularly in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Among the many fields of study represented at the Institute are Archaeology, Art and Architectural History, Classical and Byzantine Studies, Educational Studies, General History, with the emphasis on Ottoman and modern Turkish history, Political Science, including International Relations, Religion, Social Anthropology, Sociology as well as West and Central Asian Languages and Literatures.
http://www.srii.org/
USA
Central Asian Productivity Research Center http://www.caprc.org/
In May 1999, the initiative to develop the “Central Asian Productivity Research Center” was proposed by Professor Harry C. Lepinske to academic, government, and business leaders in Turkey and Azerbaijan. The initial goals were to concentrate on the needs for economic development in Eurasia and the Caucasus Regions.
Working quickly, in cooperation with a small group of volunteers, the concept spread throughout the region. In January 2000, the concept of this strategic alliance was solidified, and the program moved forward. The initial focus for CAPRC was to operate as a strategic alliance assisting with economic development programs within the region. Today as a mature respected international project, it continues to expand its primary focus.
This site will provide an opportunity for communications between the various elements of this strategic alliance. Please use the following links to explore the many resources available from this site. In order to improve productivity, duplication of information will be kept to a minimum, links to existing information will be provided. To begin the exploration, visit one of the links listed on the left hand side of this page. http://www.caprc.org/
The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and the Silk Road Studies Program constitute a joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center. The Center is independent and privately funded, and has offices in Washington, D.C., and Stockholm, Sweden. The Center is affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, and with the Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy. It is the first Center of its kind in both Europe and North America, and is firmly established as a leading focus of research and policy worldwide, serving a large and diverse community of analysts, scholars, policy-watchers, business leaders, journalists, and students. http://www.silkroadstudies.org/
The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program
The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program focuses on issues facing the region for policy-makers and academics alike. https://www.facebook.com/CACI.Silkroad
The Silk Road Studies Program focuses mainly on the western part of Eurasia, including Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea region. It incorporates the Turkey Initiative. Together with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, the Silk Road Studies Program forms a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center. It is the first Center of its kind in Europe and North America and is today firmly established as a leading center for research and policy worldwide, serving a large and diverse community of analysts, scholars, policy-watchers, business leaders and journalists.
http://isdp.eu/programs/silk-road-studies-program/
Council on East Asian Studies' Silk Road Studies Project
The collection serves as a multi-disciplinary resource with relevance to students and faculty working in the fields of art and archaeology, religious studies, history, East Asian languages and literatures, Central Asian and Islamic studies.
http://web.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/yale-silk-road
Inventing Silk Road Studies*
The UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) presents Tamara Chin. She will introduce the modern idea of the Silk Road as a term first coined by a German geographer in 1877, and then address the idea of Silk Road studies as an academic field.
Since the 1980s, the term Silk Road has had a popular and academic appeal, suggestive of an era of premodern globalization in which China played a central role. Silk Road books, journals, exhibitions, conferences, and institutes are increasingly commonplace across Asia, North America, and Europe. The talk introduces the modern idea of the Silk Road as a term first coined by a German geographer in 1877. It sketches the early translation and circulation of the term in colonial geography, before its re-appropration in diplomatic discourses after the 1955 Bandung Conference and Nixon’s 1972 visit to China. The talk then addresses the idea of Silk Road studies as an academic field. Despite a general familiarity with what now falls under Silk Road studies (e.g., Central Asian art; Dunhuang manuscripts; contemporary Chinese geopolitics), insufficient attention has been paid to its potential parameters or usefulness. I ask: as what kind of heuristic device has the Silk Road served, and in which disciplines? Is a more defined or institutionalized field of Silk Road studies desirable? If so, which model should it follow, and which other fields should it position itself with or against (e.g. Area Studies, postcolonial studies, comparative literature)?
http://china.usc.edu/calendar/inventing-silk-road-studies
Tamara Chin is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. She trained in Greek, Latin and classical Chinese literatures (Harvard BA Classics and Literature 1997; UC Berkeley PhD Comparative Literature 2005) and she is currently completing a book on the impact of Han dynasty imperial expansion on Chinese literary form.
Panelist/Discussant: Michael Nylan, History, UC Berkeley
Tamara_Chin@Brown.edu http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/visiting-research-scholars/previous/2008-2009/tamara-chin
The Association for Central Asian Civilizations and Silk Road Studies (ACANSRS) is a private non-profit organization of scholars and others interested in the study of Central Asian civilizations and the Silk Road. The association aims to promote research on Central Asia from antiquity to modern times through sponsoring events, publications, film-making, and educational trips to the region.
ACANSRS takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Central Asia and the Silk Road. Fields of interest include history, linguistics, philology, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, musicology, art, and cultural studies.
ACANSRS’s area of interest, Central Asia, is comprised of both Eastern and Western Central Asia including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as well as Xinjiang, Mongolia, and Tibet. The Silk Road is broadly defined as the legendary trade routes across Eurasia that connected the great civilizations of Europe and Asia in antiquity.
ACANSRS is a Massachusetts nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of multidisciplinary research on Central Asia. ACANSRS has been recognized as a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code since December 3, 2010, the date of its incorporation. Donations to organizations exempt under section 501(c)(3) are deductible from federal income tax.
http://acansrs.org/
University of Kansas
Sponsored By:
Center for East Asian Studies
Bailey Hall Room 202
1440 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence, KS 66045
Fax: 785-864-5034
ceas@ku.edu
785-864-3849
https://silkroad.ku.edu/faculty
Columbia University Silk Road Health Project
http://beta.global.columbia.edu/research/silk-road-health-project
http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/silkroadhealth/contact/
Association on Asian Studies (Has a number of respected publications)
http://www.asian-studies.org/About/Contact
U.S. Based Silk Road music organization
https://www.silkroadproject.org/about-us#board
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UZBEKISTAN
Tashkent
Ikuo Hirayama International Caravanserai of Culture of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan is a marvelous Silk Road research center.
http://www.visituzbekistan.travel/sightseeing/tashkent/caravanserai-of-culture/
I described my visit there in this story: http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1291
The people there were very kind and helpful, and certainly knowledgeable in all aspects of Silk Road history, culture, geography, archeology, literature, etc. Many thanks to Mr. Farrukh Usmanov, Director of the Academy, Mr. Sheyko Konstanteen Alexandrovich, Chief Curator and Archeologist in charge of many digs around Uzbekistan and my good friend Mirzahid, a 5th Dan in Jhoon Rhee Taekwondo who helped with translations
Center for Economic Research
The project "Silk Road Economic Belt of the" - one of China's initiatives, political and economic goals of which are concentrated on the creation of seven "zones": transport, energy, investment, information, scientific and technical, agricultural and tourism. For Uzbekistan this project is interesting from the point of view of maximizing the benefits from the sale of long-term development objectives: promoting sustainable economic growth and employment.
http://cer.uz/en/
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR SILK ROAD STUDIES
UNITED NATIONS
UN World Tourism Organization - The UNWTO Silk Road Programme is a collaborative initiative designed to enhance sustainable tourism development along the historic Silk Road route. It aims to maximize the benefits of tourism development for local Silk Road communities, while stimulating investment and promoting the conservation of the route's natural and cultural heritage. Importantly, it is working to foster greater co- operation between Silk Road countries and regions, creating new business opportunities while working towards a more seamless and memorable Silk Road travel experience.
http://silkroad.unwto.org/
http://silkroad.unwto.org/publication/introduction-silk-road-programme
UNESCO has an online Silk Road online platform, with contact information for people in member countries: https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/international-network-silk-road-online-platform
Front page (I think) https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/file/researchcenterofichhto6jpg
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2017 News Update on China’s One Belt, One Road developments:
http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/Article/3663952/banking-and-capital-markets-foreign-exchange/china-updates-the-silk-road.html#.WOoZ80WGPIU
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