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 …

As we all know, the Silk Road, as a famous ancient transportation route, was a trade line
cross-Eurasian continent in history. Its name was from the delivery of silk. However, no …

Traffic and exchange on the Silk Road are generally perceived to have taken place more
before and during Mongol rule in Asia than in later periods. That is, in this view the 'Silk …

India and China were the most important producers of textiles in the world prior to the
industrial revolution. However, whereas the Western historiography usually discusses Indian …

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 …

This essay is an observation of the trade changes on the continental Silk Road between the
second century BC and eighth century AD in a Eurasia perspective. Zhang Qian's first trip to …

The role of Indian textiles in Southeast Asian trade in the seventeenth century was important
in three ways. First, there was a great, almost unlimited, demand for these goods in all the …

Abstract" Hither come the merchants' is the beginning of a quote from the 16 th century
British explorer Ralph Fitch who listed goods from China traded in Chiang Mai, Lan Na. It is …

During the sixteenth century, the depredations committed by Sino-Japanese wakō pirates
closed the doors of Chinese ports to Japanese merchants. In the early eighteenth century …