Author(s)

Ming-Ce Wu

Corresponding Author

Ming-Ce Wu

Abstract

The ancient Silk Road promotes the communication between Chinese and Western civilizations as well as business exchanges. On the Silk Road, migration plays a significant role in cultural exchange as well as the spread of religion, science and technology. This article focuses on the phenomenon of migration on the ancient Silk Road and its importance from three dimensions: active migration, mixed migration and passive migration. The migration for frontier consolidation, the national migration of Hun as well as Prisoner-of-war migration after the defeat of the Battle of Talas will be respectively taken as examples of the three categories.

Keywords

Silk Road. Frontier. Migration. National migration.