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The research on Chinese ancient glass in our country started in the middle of last cen－tury．During the past fifty years，glass artifacts have been discovered frequently in the un－earthed ancient tombs and ruins dated from the West Zhou Dynasty，Spring ＆Autumn Period，Warring States to the Tang，Song，Yuan，Ming and Qing Dynasties，which pro－vided us with very important evidence and material for further study of ancient Chinese glass．Chinese art historians and archeologists have systematically summarized the un－earthed ancient Chinese glass artifacts and studied their excavation，historical background，shaping art and glass character etc．Chinese glass scientists have also got involved in scien－tific research of unearthed ancient glass samples，not only by chemical composition analy－ses，but also by technological studies，glass weathering and conservation etc．Since the 1980s，several symposia have been held in China concerning the origin，technological sources and development of Chinese ancient glass．These Symposia were attended by the scientists and experts in glass archaeology field from home and abroad，which made a con－tribution to Chinese ancient glass research within a worldwide context．

Much more ancient glass was unearthed along the Yellow River and Yangzi River val－leys，and the glass has been studied in more detail．There was also much ancient glass un－earthed in the South and Southwest of China，as well as in the North and Northwest of China．They are closely correlated with the exchange of ancient glass between China and foreign countries，via the Northwest，Southwest and the Maritime Silk Routes．These glasses had been less studied before，and in recent years we have emphasized the study of the ancient glass unearthed from the South and Southwest as well as the North and North－west of China．The Symposium on Ancient Glass in Southern China was held in Nanning，Guangxi，on 16－19th December，2002．After the symposium more than 70ancient glass artifacts and samples provided by the museums and institutes of cultural relics and archae－ology in South and Southwest of China have been measured and analyzed by non－destruc－tive analytical methods in Shanghai．The proceeding of this symposium entitled“Study on Ancient Glass in Southern China”was published by Shanghai Scientific and Technical Pub－lisher in 2003．

For the same purpose，the Symposium on Ancient Glass in Northern China was held in Urumqi，Xinjiang，from 29th August to 6th September in 2004．This symposium was supported by the Basic Research Division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Cul－tural Heritage Bureau of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region，and was organized by the Special Glass Technical Committee，the Chinese Ceramic Society and the XinjiangTurfanology Research Society and other related institutions．Art historians，archaeologists and the scientists in natural sciences from the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Ar－chaeology，the Museum of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region，the Cultural Heritage Bureau of Turfan，the Guyuan District Museum of Ningxia，the Ningxia Institute of Cul－tural Relics and Archaeology，the Qinghai Institute of Culture Relics and Archaeology，the Liaoning Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology，the Inner Mongolia Museum，the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics，CAS，and the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics，CAS，Fudan University and Beijing University of Science and Technology at－tended the symposium and gave their presentations and research reports on the unearthed and collected ancient glass artifacts from the North and Northwest of China．The discus－sion around the topics of ancient glass spread and distribution along Northwestern and North Silk Road and cultural exchange between the East and West proceeded actively．The symposium has further promoted cooperation on research in the field of Northern ancient glass in China．

“The Silk Road”is a name given to depict a group of cultural，political and technolog－ical exchange routes that link up the East and West．It played a significant role in ancient times．Zhangqian’s“Traveling to Western Regions”was a magnificent undertaking influ－encing the East－West exchange at that time，but long before his travels westward，there had been primitive trade roads in Euro－Asian region．Conservatively it can be estimated that this dated 10th century B．C．that was between Shang and Zhou Dynasties in China．After Zhangqian’s travels new transportation routes between China and the outside world were explored．China was the center of the Silk Road in Asia，but not the terminal．The Silk Road was extended from China to the Korean Peninsula，Japan and Southeastern A－sia．A few years ago，Unesco identified four main routes of Silk Road：1．the Northern Steppe Route，2．the Northwestern Desert Route，3．the Southern Maritime Route，4．the Southwestern Buddhist Route．

Under the auspices of Chinese Ceramic Society and the Technical Committee of Ar－chaeometry of Glass，the International Commission of Glass（TC－17，ICG），the Shanghai International Workshop of Archaeology of Glass was held on 12th April，2005during the 2005Shanghai International Symposium on Glass．The topic of the workshop was“Ancient Glass Along the Silk Road”．The purpose of this workshop was to bring together the archaeologists，art historians，and natural scientists interested in glass found along the Silk Road，to learn each other，to exchange ideas，and to plan for collaboration in the fu－ture．The participants of the workshop came from The Corning Museum of Glass，U．S．A；the Pusan Museum，Korea；the National Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan；the Institute of Archaeology，the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences；the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology；the Shanxi Institute of Archaeology，the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics，CAS；the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics，CAS；Shanghai University；Fudan University and Beijing University of Science and Technology．Scientificpapers and reports were also submitted by China National Institute of Cultural Property，the Hepu Museum of Guangxi，the Guizhou Provincial Museum，the Inner Mongolia Mu－seum and the Sichuan University Museum，etc．In this fruitful workshop，scientific mate－rials and research results concerning the excavation background，historical profile，shaping arts，outside character and chemical composition of ancient glass samples along the North－ern Desert Silk Route and Southern Maritime Silk Route were reported．This book con－tains the proceedings of both two conferences mentioned above．It reflects the new re－search results of ancient glass in Asian region along The Silk Road．

We express our thanks to the authors of this proceedings for the manuscript of their papers and color photos of unearthed glass artifacts．Some glass photos have been already published in the monograph“Development of Chinese Ancient Glass”（Gan Fuxi，etc．，Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publisher，2005）．We will not reprint here．More than 30new color photos of ancient glass artifacts unearthed in Northern and Northwestern，as well as Southern China are included in this book for readers’reference and appreciation．

Acknowledgements are made to Fudan University and Fudan University Press for their supports of the publication and to our colleagues at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics for their efforts and cooperation．Thanks go to Dr．Li Qinghui，Prof．Gu Donghong and Tian Shouyun，Mrs．Ma Bo and Zhao Hongxia，who took part in the work of organizing，editing，typing，translation and proof－reading of the text，without their contribution，it would have been impossible to present this book to the public within such a short time．The editing and publication of this book were also supported under the Research Grant of the National Natural Science Foundation of China（No．50672106），and Third Intellectual Innovation Project，titled on“Several Advanced Researchs on Scientific Archaeology”（KJCX3·SYW·N12），of the Chinese Academy of Sciences．