An Object of Seduction

Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700

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An Object of Seduction

Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700

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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.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Production: The Development of Sericulture and Interacting with the Natural Environment
Chapter Two: Trade: Negotiations Between Central Governments and Local Societies
Chapter Three: Fashion: The Desire for Luxury Silk, the Color Red, and Foreignness
Chapter Four: Regulation: Sumptuary Laws and the Decline of the Traditional Authorities

Product details

Published 07 Feb 2022
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 230
ISBN 9781978799257
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 16 b/w illustrations;
Series Empires and Entanglements in the Early Modern World
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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