The New Silk Road

September 19, 2018 12:00

For millennia, the ancient Silk Road allowed unprecedented exchange between cultures through the movement of ideas, goods and people. How will the Belt and Road Initiative, or the New Silk Road, redefined by China, change cultural and historical dynamics along its routes?

Dimensions to be addressed:
- Competing ideas about heritage and identity
- Acknowledging the social cost to communities
- Renewed vision of cultural diplomacy

Simultaneous interpretation in English and Mandarin Chinese

This session will be livestreamed on TopLink and the Forum website.

Speakers:

Chao Hing

Executive Director, International Guoshu Association

Rena Effendi

Photographer, National Geographic

Bruno Maçães

Senior Fellow, Renmin University of China

Mokena Makeka

Special Advisor to the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cooper Union

Zhang Lujing

Editorial Director, China Economic Weekly