This book reopens and restructures the grand debate on the nature of economic
development in China prior to the Communist revolution. It rejects the debate's old contours …

Abstract The Silk Road is the busiest transport route in the cultural exchange between the
East and the West around the birth of Christ. The name was derived from the fact that …

According to Chinese historical sources, before the maritime ceramics trades became active
during the period of Song Dynasty, 960-1279 CE, southern India and Sri Lanka were the …

To what extent did Chinese silk technology influence the development of European
sericulture? How did Europeans try to acquire technological information from East Asia …

In the history of China, the Silk Road was closely related to the Western Regions. Before the
Silk Road was formed, several jade transport routes were extending in Eurasia. Hetian jade …

In the last decade, studies of the silk industry and trade have been at the center of the
continuing debate over China's development in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries …

For about half a century, from the 1640s to the end of the 1680s, Tonkin played significant
role in the maritime trading networks of the China Sea region by exporting raw silk at a time …

Jibin appears in the “Traditions of the Western Regions”(“西域传”) of the Hanshu by Ban Gu
(班固, CE 32–92). The book concerns only the history of the Former Han Dynasty, and thus …

The design of French silk was very exquisite. Which has formed a clear specification and
strict classification system even teaching materials in Eighteenth Century. Based on the …