China's silk trade : traditional industry in the modern world, 1842-1937 / Lillian M. Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Lillian M., 1943-

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 97.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silk industry--China--History.

Silk industry.

China.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1981.

Summary:

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 times silk played a role in Chinese history, both as a symbol of imperial tradition and as a mainstay of the peasant economy.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 249-269.

ISBN:

0674119622

OCLC:

7277802