Fashioning The Pacific Trade: Silk Production & Consumption in China and New Spain with Xiaolin Duan
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesStarting from 1573, silk textiles from China traveled not only to Europe but also eastward to New Spain via the Manila Galleons. This foreign trade was dependent on and fueled the development of sericulture and silk manufacturing. The extensive wearing … Read more