Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, UC Berkeley

About
The P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for Silk Road Studies (TCSRS) was established in 2017 under the auspices of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, to advance research and teaching on the historical overland and maritime exchange networks commonly referred to as the Silk Roads.

Supported by a generous gift by two branches of the Tang family, Oscar Tang and his wife Agnes Hsu-Tang, who are based in New York City, and Bay Area Berkeley alumnae Nadine Tang and Leslie Tang Schilling, with their brother Martin Tang in Hong Kong.

The TCSRS focuses on the material and visual culture of sites scattered throughout China and Central Asia, as well as on manuscripts and objects found in archives and repositories in the United States, Europe and Asia, to foster study of and teaching on the trading networks that, in multifaceted ways, formed a bridge between the cultural and commercial centers of Eurasia.