A Portrait Of The Silk Road

A photo album replete with travelogues has been published after its author retraces the ancient route. Xing Yi reports.

When Hu Bin embarked alone on western China's Silk Road from Central China's Henan province as a college sophomore in 1990 - with a few hundred yuan and a camera - he had little inkling his journey would resume a quarter of a century later.

Or that he'd return last year as a journalist and photographer, and publish a book afterward.