{"id":28467,"date":"2023-05-10T10:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T02:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academy.isf.edu.hk\/?page_id=28467"},"modified":"2023-05-10T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T02:16:44","slug":"silkroadsprogramme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/academy.isf.edu.hk\/index.php\/silkroadsprogramme\/","title":{"rendered":"SilkRoadsProgramme"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cambridge University, King\u2019s College Silk Roads Programme Online Lecture<\/h3>\n

Aquilaria and Exotic Aromatics on the Maritime Silk Roads<\/h2>\n

Dr. Bill Mak, Director of Chinese Research Center, The ISF Academy<\/h3>\n

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The historical importance of the overland Silk Road connecting China, India, and other Eurasian cultures has generated much scholarly interest in the past century. On the other hand, that of the maritime routes requires further exploration, especially from a longue-dur\u00e9e perspective. This paper examines the role of the Maritime Silk Road connecting South China, Southeast Asia, India, and beyond from the first millennium CE, focusing on the case of aromatic trade, from which Hong Kong was named after. The spread of the exotic aromatics and the cultivation of a variety of species of Aquilaria across tropical and subtropical Asia demonstrate the robust and long-lasting connectivity between a number of Asian cultures from China to the far end of the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

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Date : <\/strong>Friday, May 19<\/p>\n

Time : <\/strong>6:00 p.m. (Hong Kong Time); 11:00 a.m. (British Standard Time)<\/p>\n

Speaker : <\/strong>Dr. Bill Mak, Director of Chinese Research Center, The ISF Academy<\/p>\n

Language : <\/strong>English<\/p>\n

Link :\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/www.kings.cam.ac.uk\/research\/silk-roads-programme\/silk-roads-programme-events<\/a><\/p>\n

Registration :\u00a0<\/strong>Click here<\/a><\/p>\n

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About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Bill Mak is Director of Chinese Research Center, the ISF Academy, Fellow of the Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole, University of Hong Kong,\u00a0and Research Associate of the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, U.K. He completed his\u00a0linguistic training at McGill University (B.A. Hons.) in 1996, specialising in Sanskrit and East Asian languages. His areas of research\u00a0include history of science in Asia, historical Sino-Indian cultural contact, and Buddhist philology. After he received his Ph.D. in Indian\u00a0languages and literature from Peking University in 2010, he held several research and teaching positions in Germany (Hamburg University), Hong Kong (University of Hong\u00a0Kong), and Japan (Kyoto University). Mak has authored over 30 academic articles in peer-reviewed\u00a0journals and is the co-editor of Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia<\/em>, published by Brill in 2022. He is now completing a book project titled Foreign\u00a0Astral Sciences in China, from Six Dynasties to Northern Song<\/em>, to be published by Routledge under the Needham Research Institute\u00a0Monograph Series.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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