http://www.blizzardboy.net/travel/silk-road-documentary-revisited.html A Kiwi-Japanese family's adventures down under Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:05:24 +0900 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.blizzardboy.net/travel/silk-road-documentary-revisited.html/comment-page-1#comment-13421 Mutantfrog Travelogue » Blog Archive » Asian History Carnival Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:23:48 +0000 http://www.blizzardboy.net/japan/silk-road-documentary-revisited.html#comment-13421 [...] When I went to Xinjiang, China a few years ago I was surprised to find that Turpan is full of Japanese speaking Uyghur guides, to accomodate the steady stream of Japanese tourists that have been heading there ever since the famous Silk Road documentary aired on NHK in 1980. In looking through the archives of various blogs for this Carnival, I found that earlier this year Our Silk Road had reported that this highly influential travel/history documentary is being updated with recent scholarship, and even better, higher resolution imagery. [...] [...] When I went to Xinjiang, China a few years ago I was surprised to find that Turpan is full of Japanese speaking Uyghur guides, to accomodate the steady stream of Japanese tourists that have been heading there ever since the famous Silk Road documentary aired on NHK in 1980. In looking through the archives of various blogs for this Carnival, I found that earlier this year Our Silk Road had reported that this highly influential travel/history documentary is being updated with recent scholarship, and even better, higher resolution imagery. [...]

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