Silk Roads, China Ships

Royal Ontario Museum, Evelyn Nagai-Berthrong, John Vollmer, Edward John Keall — 1983

Throughout history people have been captivated by the exploration of civilizations foreign to their own familiar sights and sounds. Nowhere is this more evident than in the exhibition Silk Roads--China Ships, which unveils objects that chronicle the cultural, economic, political, and social effects of trade between the Orient and the West through nineteen centuries.--pg. vi.