摘要
阿尔德·格鲁菲德·琼斯教授曾任英国阿伯斯特威斯大学副校长和阿伯里斯特威斯威尔士国家图书馆副馆长。琼斯教授在本文中指出,丝绸之路不仅是欧亚大陆商品流动的渠道,而且还是艺术、文化和人类伟大创造的传播通道。当今,丝绸之路仍然被视为人类文化交往。他强调文化在当今世界交往中的重要性,以及文化之于经济发展的重要意义。他认为,丝绸之路更多以“文化经济”(Cultural Economy)形式呈现,而非传统的“文化外交”(Cultural Diplomacy)。丝绸之路上的文化交往源远流长,但在当代却产生了新的形式。丝绸之路沿线跨境的交通、能源和商品贸易仍然十分重要,但是未来基于数字和虚拟技术的文化交往将显得愈加重要。
For more than two thousand years,the Silk Road network shaped Eurasian civilizations and it was the principal conduit not only for commodities and technologies,but also languages,religions,arts and knowledge in all its forms.The Northern Route which started in Xi'an in the Han Dynasty,and which since 1990 hasbeen known as the Eurasian Land Bridge,has also been the route by which Hewlett Packard freights its hardware across continents.Since 2013 The Southern Route is now the Karakoram Highway,and the South West Route still links China to the emerging economy of India.From the days of the Han,and the audacious expansionism of Alexander the Great,to the age of the microcomputer,the Silk Road has been one of the world's greatest transmission belts of both commodities and knowledge.
出处
《中东研究》
2018年第2期3-10,216,共9页
Middle East Studies
