1. 'A ceaselessly flowing stream of life'
2. Coiled dragons and filmy fleeces: jade and silk
3. From Greece and Rome to China - and back again
4. A people abandoned by heaven: the Xiongnu and trade during the Han dynasty
5. The spread of trade and religions: Tocharians and Sogdians
6. The fashion for all things Central Asian
7. The caves of the thousand buddhas: Buddhism on the Silk Road
8. Tanguts, Mongols, Nestorians and Marco Polo
9. A parterre of roses: travellers to Ming China and Samarkand
10. The great game and the Silk Road
11. Asia held them captive in her cold embrace: explorers on the Silk Road
12. Trophies and tiger entrails: hunting and theorising on the Silk Road
13. Securing specimens: Aurel Stein
14. An end to excavation: Pelliot, von Le Coq and Warner
15. The baby general: travel on the Silk Road in the 1930s
