This chapter is comprised of eleven subsections that narrate the early stages of the silk trade
in Central Asia. The subchapters include the Ancient Steppe routes, horses and the balance …

One of the three emperors to whom the Chinese ascribe the beginning of their ancient
customs was Huang-Ti, who is said to have invented the making of garments, which possibly …

During the seventeenth century crisis, China witnessed the decline and fall of the Ming
dynasty. Scholars have long discussed the role of silver in the Ming crisis, but less attention …

The Silk Road was a network of trade routes which connected the East and West, and was
central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions …

Bell presents a densely packed, meticulously researched, and tightly analyzed history of the
development of silk production in Wuxi County in the Yangzi delta of China. Bell argues that …

The story of silk is a compelling one of the earliest instances of knowledge turned to practical
advantage. Sericulture and silk weaving spread along the Silk Road, from China to Western …

Published online by Cambridge University Press her book An Object of Seduction, the
historian Xiaolin Duan discusses the ecological, political, technological, mercantile …

Through the jade gate, China to Rome : a study of the silk routes during the Later Han Dynasty
1st to 2nd centuries CE : an annotated translation from the Hou Hanshu 'The chronicle on the …

In the 15th and 16th centuries, Portuguese and Spanish successively opened up two trade
routes through the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, establishing the Maritime Silk Road …