{"product_id":"on-the-new-silk-road","title":"On the New Silk Road","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Silk Road once served as the vital artery of the ancient world,  connecting China to societies across Eurasia and providing immense wealth and  prestige. Now an ascendant China is attempting to  restore its place at the centre of global trade through one of the most  ambitious projects of modern times. This ‘New Silk Road’ will use rail lines, highways, pipelines and shipping routes across China, Russia, the Middle East and Central  Asia, unifying a region that has been contested for millennia.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eHaving travelled the length and breadth of the future ‘Road’, from its  planned starting point in Xi’an, China, to its outer  reaches in Western Europe, Wade Shepard provides an absorbing account of  China’s efforts to make the New Silk Road a reality. He reveals its implications for  the world as a whole, and argues that the Road represents the focal point of China’s plans for an  alternative economic order, which it hopes will rival  or even surpass that of the West.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the New Silk Road\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential account of a crucial turning  point in the history of Asia, and of the world. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223266316632,"sku":"9781783608348","price":82.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781783608348.jpg?v=1743566452","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/on-the-new-silk-road","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}