The Influence of Western Han Frontier Political Policy on the Formation of the Silk Road

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10.2991/assehr.k.220401.158How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Silk Road; policy; Western Han dynasty; Hsiung-nu

Abstract

This paper begins with a study on the background of the Silk Road with a view to identify how the Silk Road was formed during the Western Han Dynasty and why the Western Han government promoted the Silk Road. The policy of peacemaking in the early Han Dynasty did not stop the invasion from Hsiung-nu. The counterattack against Hsiung-nu during the reign of Emperor Wu was the most important turning point in the Western Han’s policy toward the Western Regions, as the Western Han government sent emissaries to establish amicable diplomatic relations with the Western countries and to defend against Hsiung-nu together. With such a policy, the Han Dynasty eventually achieved military victory in a long border war and reaped the unexpected blessing of the blazing of the Silk Road.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fengqing Chen
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/08
TI  - The Influence of Western Han Frontier Political Policy on the Formation of the Silk Road
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 821
EP  - 825
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220401.158
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220401.158
ID  - Chen2022
ER  -