Silk Road East-West Cultural Exchange and Northern Grassland Art - Volume 1

Professor Shen Aifeng, editor and lead author of this volume, is a professor at Soochow University School of Art. He also serves as a doctoral supervisor at Lahore University of Education and Varna Free University. His research focuses on world art history and the ancient art of the Silk Road; he is also a painter and contemporary art critic. He has led two national research projects and published two monographs—From the Lapis Lazuli Road to the Silk Road - Tracing the Origin of Ancient Art in West Asia, Central Asia, and the Eurasian Grassland (2 volumes) and Ancient Art of China’s Western Regions along the Silk Road (co-authored). He also co-authored the textbook History of Chinese and Foreign Design and has written around 60 academic papers.