Zhuhai, Guangdong Apr 8, 2019 (Issuewire.com) - ‘Silk Road to Belt Road: Reinventing the Past and Shaping the Future’ is a recently published book by Springer that was edited by Associate Professor of Beijing Normal University - Hong Kong Baptist University United International College’s General Education Office (GEO) Dr Nazul Islam. This book is a collection of papers that were presented in the 2nd Interdisciplinary Forum on ‘Belt- Road Connectivity and Eurasian Integration: Meeting the culture’, which was held at United International College in March 2018. The papers were authored by scholars from universities in China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Korea, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and so on.
Belt and Road Initiative’s geo-economic vision and geo-political ambition of the current Chinese leadership are obviously venues for cultural interaction and exchange. This book approaches China’s Belt and Road Initiative as a process of culturalization which started from the journey of the Silk Road and continued over the millennium. Belt and Road Initiative in mainstream literature has been perceived as to the vision of the current Chinese leadership in shaping the future of the world.
According to Dr Islam, Editor of the book, the book explores the journey from Silk Road to Belt Road through analysing the topics ranging from history to religion, language to culture, and environment to health. “Scholars, academics, researchers, and undergraduate to graduate students from Humanity, Social Sciences, and Business will find an alternative thought in looking Belt and Road Initiative from this volume,” he said.
Dr Nazrul Islam worked as a Visiting Associate Professor (2015–2016) in the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia. He was a JIRS Fellow (2011–2016), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellow (2002–2003), The United Nations University (Tokyo) Fellow (2001), a Visiting Research Associate at the Ateneo de Manila University (2003), attached to University of Calcutta (2004–2005), and a Visiting Scholar at the Center of Asian Studies (2008), University of Hong Kong. His areas of expertise are Medical Sociology/Anthropology, Public Health, Gender and Sexuality, Environmental health, Health tourism, Ayurveda, Chinese Herbal medicine, as well as the Cultural impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative.
The book can be purchased from here - https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811329975
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