Silk for silver : Dutch-Vietnamese relations, 1637-1700 / by Hoang Anh Tuan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoàng, Anh Tuấn.

Series:

TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction ; v. 5.

TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction, 1871-6938 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Netherlands--Foreign relations--Vietnam.

Netherlands.

Vietnam--Foreign relations--Netherlands.

Vietnam.

Netherlands--History--1648-1714.

Vietnam--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 296 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Against the background of a regional crisis caused by dynastic change in China and the closure of Japan in the middle of the seventeenth century, the Vietnamese kingdom of Tonkin rose to the fore as the major silk producing and exporting region in East Asia. Based on a wealth of so far unused primary sources from the Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives, this monograph explains how Dutch and Chinese maritime traders played a critical role in Tonkin’s dramatic emergence as a trading power. The author examines the vicissitudes in political relations, the varying trends in the VOC-Tonkin import and export trade, and the Dutch influence on the seventeenth-century Vietnamese feudal society.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Part One. The Setting

Part Two. The Political Relations

Part Three. The Commercial Relations

Part Four. Dutch-Vietnamese Interactions

Conclusion

Appendices

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-286) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39694-3

9786612396946

90-474-2169-8

OCLC:

606907760

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004156012.i-300 DOI