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 …

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 …

From 1959 to 1960, a batch of silk fabrics from the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220) and the
Northern Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty (6th–seventh centuries) were discovered in …

Of all the products associated with the material wealth and cultural splendor of traditional
Chinese civilization, none was so quintessentially Chinese as silk. From the most ancient …

China is the world's earliest country to rear silkworms and produce silk, and for a
considerable period of time was the only country in the world engaged in this handicraft …

For centuries relations between China and Southeast Asia pivoted on trade. Textiles-
particularly Chinese silks-were among the most important of trade goods. Despite this …

First produced in China around the fourth or fifth millennium BC, silk has fulfilled a wide
range of social, economic, and political roles in Chinese culture for many thousands of …

Describes the discovery and production of silk in ancient China; the exchange of goods,
culture, and ideas which accompanied the silk caravans along the road from East to West; …