Introduction, Silk Road, ancient and contemporary / Elizabeth Ten Grotenhuis

Conversation with Yo-Yo Ma / Yo-Yo Ma and Theodore Levin

Melodic migration in northwest China / Bright Sheng

Fashioned from fiber / Elizabeth Barber

Astrology and a Japanese Star Mandala / Elizabeth Ten Grotenhuis

Sacred sites along the Silk Road / photographs by Kenro Izu, text by Debra Diamond

Traveling technologies / Merton C. Flemings

Iranian cinema : a brief take on a long history / Hamid Naficy.