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The Other Side of the Silk Road: Roaming World Heritage, Season 1
Across mountains and deserts, connecting the civilizations of East and West
Completed · 59 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Travel with Jiang Song and Every Artifact and Heritage Site Comes Alive | Liang Yun, Xiao Lu, Wang Hailing 1. How Many More Monuments Can Be Destroyed? Understanding Human Civilization Through World Heritage 2. Four Walls, Four Rulers: How Did Central Asia Navigate Rival Powers? The Hall of Ambassadors, Part I 3. Did Sogdian Splendor Grow from Openness? The Snowballing Art of Sogdia | Hall of Ambassadors, Part II 4. Did Timur Rebuild a City Through War? Samarkand, Part I 5. “When I Rise from the Dead, the World Will Tremble”: Did Timur’s Curse Come True? Samarkand, Part II Did Funerary Art Imagine the Afterlife? A Sogdian Sarcophagus at the Miho Museum | Bonus How Do 24 Boats Reveal an 800-Year-Old Shipping Crisis? Canal Transport in Along the River During Qingming | Bonus On the Road | Sometimes You Travel Somewhere for One Photograph of an Artifact—Only to Find Photography Forbidden 6. Can a Building Unfold Like Music? The Samanid Mausoleum 7. An Entire City as an Open-Air Museum of Architecture | Touring Bukhara Twenty-Five Slightly Improper Artifacts | International Museum Day Special 8. A Forest of Wooden Columns: Decoding Islamic Ornament in 212 Carved Pillars | Juma Mosque 9. The Caravan’s Final Stop Before the Iranian Desert | The Mongol Past of Khiva’s Walled City Central Asia Travel Guide | Watching the Old City’s Silhouettes Interlace at Nightfall 10. “Animals Are More Sensitive Than People Here”: How a Buddhist Center Told Worldly Stories | Great Stupa at Sanchi 11. Life’s Difficulties as an Army of Demons: How Should We Fight? | Sanchi’s Three Stupas 12. “Well Done—you Walk the Road I Once Walked”: Cultural Exchange Between India and China | Sanchi 13. The Taj Mahal: A Tomb of Love? Twenty Years of Building by an Imprisoned Emperor 14. Flowers That Never Fade: Shah Jahan’s Eternal Borrowings from Central Asian, Islamic, and Ancient Indian Art 15. Controversy, Legend, and Myth: Was There More Than One Taj Mahal? The Paradise Tomb and Moonlight Garden When Himalayan Ice Melts, Snowmelt Flows All the Way to Kashmir’s Sacred Dal Lake | India Travel Guide 16. “Quanzhou Is Full of Strange Gods and Spirits?” Third Anniversary of Its World Heritage Listing 17. Song-Yuan Quanzhou: Where Wealthy Merchants and Many Gods Met Talking with Wang Ruiyun About the Louvre, Mona Lisa, and Leonardo | Live Bonus “A Pleasure to Spend This Time with You”: A Walk to the Old Summer Palace and Twelve Scenic Views 18. Deer Patterns Cover the Human Body: Shamanic Symbols and Bronze Age Eurasian Nomads 19. Gold in Motion: Scythian Pastoral Life in Peter the Great’s Siberian Collection 20. Does Animal-Style Ornament Always Mean Scythian? Scythian Culture Around the World On the Road | Tang-Song Buddhist Grottoes in Sichuan That Even Locals Could Not Find On the Road | Yuncheng and Its 6,202 Immovable Cultural Relics On the Road | Murals at Jiyi Temple in Xinjiang County: Faded Color, Vivid Ritual 21. Nomads Tell Their Own Story: The Discovery and Mysteries of the Kül Tigin Inscription 22. Did Incomprehensible Speech Mark a “Barbarian”? The Revelation of Old Turkic Runes Prologue | The Western Regions, the World’s Only Meeting Place of Four Great Cultural Systems 23. Kizil Cave Murals: Paradise and Ocean Hidden in Diamond-Shaped Stories? 24. How Did Kucha, “Cradle of Grottoes,” Shape Buddhist Art in China? Kizil Cave 38 25. The Mystery Behind Unique Murals in the Kizil Thousand Buddha Caves | Silk Roads: Chang’an–Tianshan Corridor 26. A Miniature World in The Throne of the Great Mogul and a Powerful King’s Desire | Dresden, Germany 27. Europe’s Chinese Craze: Bodhisattvas, Ho-Ho Birds, and Coconut Willows in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 28. Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House: The Delicacy of Miniature Art | Windsor Castle, London 29. “Candlelight Shines, Gold Awakens”: Perfect Byzantine Mosaics at Chora Monastery 30. “Believe and You Will Be Saved”: Mosaics of the Life of the Virgin Mary 31. Glass, Gold, and Dimension: Ten Great Mosaic Works Across Sixteen Centuries Happy New Year | Suddenly Falling in Love with a Book and Reading Until Dawn Beijing’s Central Axis Listing Reversed Decades of Destructive Development | Zhu Qipeng × Jiang Song, Part I Beijing’s Vanished Gates Still Live on Its Residents’ Mental Map | Part II Cultural Heritage Work Is a Struggle Against Time | Part III Lunar New Year Travel | “I Get Anxious Before Visiting a Museum!” 32. The Lesson of the Behistun Inscription: Iran, the Most Underrated and Misunderstood Civilization 33. The Birth of a “King”: How Was the Behistun Inscription Deciphered? 34. Dunhuang Cave 285: The “Beginning” of a Thousand-Year Civilizational Puzzle 35. A Silk Road Pantheon: What Stories Cover the Four Walls of Cave 285? 36. Gods on an Inverted-Funnel Ceiling? Buddhas of Three Ages, Fuxi and Nüwa, and Buddhism’s Eastward Journey 37. The Summer Palace: Qianlong’s Filial Devotion, a Tibetan Buddhist Cosmos, and a World Compressed into a Garden 38. The “Hidden Realm of Sumeru”: Buddhist Cosmology on the Summer Palace’s Rear Hill 39. Paradise Flowing Through Four Seasons: Why Was Byōdō-in Built Outside Kyoto? 40. Finale: From the Mogao Caves to the Phoenix Hall, “Creating Paradise on Earth” International Museum Day: Ancient Eyes Knew the Beauty of Nature—A Natural Epic in Artifacts