Xin Wen

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Heading to Champaign-Urbana for a lecture in early October. Let me know if you happen to be in town!
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The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road by Xin Wen

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Thank you so much James!

Thanks Yuzhou!

Thrilled to learn that my book The King's Road had been awarded this year's Levenson Prize (pre-1900 category)! I am very happy and extremely humbled by this recognition.

[데일리대구경북뉴스] 계명대학교. ‘2024 계명 실크로드 학술상’ 시상식 개최 (데일리대구경북뉴스=이준호 기자) 계명대학교(총장 신일희)는 지난 25일 오전 11시, 성서캠퍼스 동천관 국제세미나실에서 ‘2024 계명 실크로드 학술상’ 시상식을 개최했다고 밝혔다. 이 상은 실크로드 연구를 촉진하고 문명 간 교류의 정신을 확산하기 위해 계명대학교 실크로드연구원이 제정한 상으로, 올해 두 번째 시상을 맞이했다. 학술상 운영위원회는 지난 4

Received a book award at Keimyung University in Daegu, Korea. Really appreciated the staff and faculty there! www.dailydgnews.com/news/article...

The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages by Shane Bobrycki. Cover features an illustrated crowd on the bottom-left of the cover, looking up at a hand extending from the top right.

Shane Bobrycki's The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages shows the importance of collective behavior in early #medieval Europe.

Out now! Learn more about the history of crowds during the five hundred years between the age of circuses and the age of crusades: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Hi Marco, thanks for the note. I have no evidence I can think of - that's why I categorize this as a wild idea. But I would love to hear if you can find any evidence!

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) history of the city of Chang'an after the Tang dynasty that I am tempted to title The Whalefall
2) paper was widely adopted in China because of Buddhism

The King’s Road On the occasion of the book’s paperback edition, which has just been published: Wen, Xin. 2023. The king’s road: Diplomacy and the remaking of the Silk Road. Princeton: Princeton University P…

On the occasion of the book’s paperback edition:

Wen, Xin. 2023. The king’s road: Diplomacy and the remaking of the Silk Road. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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Wow this sounds so fun! I am going to steal your idea!

This is incredibly generous of you Chuck!

The King’s Road An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade

Paperback version of my book officially came out yesterday!
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Thrilled and humbled that my book The King's Road from @princetonupress.bsky.social has been awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize from the @ahahistorians.bsky.social!

Came to Cornell for a talk. Ithaca has to be one of the most beautiful place I have ever been in my life!

New article on using GIS to reconstruct China's medieval capital Chang'an out on Startwords from Center of Digital Humanities at Princeton startwords.cdh.princeton.edu