top of page
Listen Live
Listen Live
KPTZ 91.9 FM - Port Townsend community radio station logo

Welcome to the new KPTZ.org! Check out the new features here. Got feedback? Let us know!

A Journey Along the Silk Road

Chris Bricker / Bill Porter ("Red Pine")

Add paragraph text. Click “Edit Text” to update the font, size and more. To change and reuse text themes, go to Site Styles.

This is Chris Bricker, and I’m thrilled to introduce you to Bill Porter – or Red Pine – one of the world’s finest translators of Chinese Poetry and religious texts. For those of you who already know him, and those of you who will get to know him, he prefers to just being your neighbor Bill Porter. Each week, Bill will bring you a series of enticing installments that we’re calling A Journey Along the Silk Road. So sit back and enjoy the journey, every Tuesday at approximately 5:20 and Friday at approximately 12:15. And lose yourself in the mystery of the Silk Road!

A Journey Along the Silk Road

Chris Bricker / Bill Porter ("Red Pine")

Add paragraph text. Click “Edit Text” to update the font, size and more. To change and reuse text themes, go to Site Styles.

Episodes

Add paragraph text. Click “Edit Text” to update the font, size and more. To change and reuse text themes, go to Site Styles.

In recent years the Yining area has attracted thousands of Han Chinese,

lured here by cross-border trade with the Kazak Republic, less than one

hundred kilometers to the west. But the majority of the area’s population

still consists of Uyghurs and Kazaks, and a few smaller ethnic groups, like

the Xibos. The Xibos’ homeland was originall]y thousands kilometers to

the east….

Add paragraph text. Click “Edit Text” to update the font, size and more. To change and reuse text themes, go to Site Styles.

In recent years the Yining area has attracted thousands of Han Chinese,

lured here by cross-border trade with the Kazak Republic, less than one

hundred kilometers to the west. But the majority of the area’s population

still consists of Uyghurs and Kazaks, and a few smaller ethnic groups, like

the Xibos. The Xibos’ homeland was originall]y thousands kilometers to

the east….

Add paragraph text. Click “Edit Text” to update the font, size and more. To change and reuse text themes, go to Site Styles.

In recent years the Yining area has attracted thousands of Han Chinese,

lured here by cross-border trade with the Kazak Republic, less than one

hundred kilometers to the west. But the majority of the area’s population

still consists of Uyghurs and Kazaks, and a few smaller ethnic groups, like

the Xibos. The Xibos’ homeland was originall]y thousands kilometers to

the east….

Rolling_1x-1.0s-200px-200px.gif

No episodes available

About

This is Chris Bricker, and I’m thrilled to introduce you to Bill Porter – or Red Pine – one of the world’s finest translators of Chinese Poetry and religious texts. For those of you who already know him, and those of you who will get to know him, he prefers to just being your neighbor Bill Porter. Each week, Bill will bring you a series of enticing installments that we’re calling A Journey Along the Silk Road. So sit back and enjoy the journey, every Tuesday at approximately 5:20 and Friday at approximately 12:15. And lose yourself in the mystery of the Silk Road!

Read More
bottom of page