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An Object of Seduction
Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700
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2022
Summary
The first book-length English-language study focusing on the early modern export of Chinese silk to New Spain from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, An Object of Seduction compares and contrasts the two regions from perspectives of the sericulture development, the widespread circulation of silk fashion, and the government attempts at regulating the use of silk. Xiaolin Duan argues that the increasing demand for silk on the worldwide market on the one hand contributed to the parallel development of silk fashion and sericulture in China and New Spain, and on the other hand created conflicts on imperial regulations about foreign trade and hierarchical systems. Incorporating evidence from local gazetteers, correspondence, manual books, illustrated treatises, and miscellanies, this book explores how the growing desire for and production of raw silk and silk textiles empowered individuals and societies to claim and redefine their positions in changing time and space, thus breaking away from the traditional state control.
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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-1490-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-1491-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
217
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
1 Production: The Development of Sericulture and Interacting with the Natural Environment No access Pages 23 - 66
2 Trade: Negotiations between Central Governments and Local Societies No access Pages 67 - 104
3 Fashion: The Desire for Luxury Silk, the Color Red, and Foreignness No access Pages 105 - 144
4 Regulation: Sumptuary Laws and the Decline of Traditional Authorities No access Pages 145 - 178
