Author: Jing Wang

Jing Wang is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology Department at Rice University and currently a visiting scholar in the Anthropology Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in issues of globalization, intercultural studies, and ethnic/religious minorities in post-socialist states.

Interviews
Interview with Magnus Marsden, author of “Beyond Silk Roads: Trade, Mobility and Geopolitics Across Eurasia”
8 January 202210 January 2022
When the Taliban took over Kabul in the summer of 2021, I—like many people around the world—kept asking such questions as: How did it all come about? What do we know about Afghanistan other than from a geopolitically inflected perspective mostly dominated by the US interests?
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Essays
Reflections on the Silver Way and the Silk Road
18 October 201818 October 2018
Since the Chinese President Xi Jinping first proposed to revive the Silk Road in 2013, the term have become almost ubiquitous, whether used in a celebratory or derogative way. The topics range from trade agreements, financial loans, military bases, soft-power expansion, and cultural exchanges in the age of globalization.
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