China's Silk Trade - Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842-1937 (Hardcover)

The development of modern China's most important export commodity, silk, is traced from the opening of the treaty ports to the 1930s. This study examines the silk industry, one of China's most advanced traditional economic enterprises, as it moved into large-scale trade with the West. And it especially considers whether traditional economic organizations and practices encouraged or inhibited the expansion of the industry and its technological modernization. The silk industry is presented as a microcosm of China's encounter with the modern world market, focusing on such topics as the role of the state, the relationship between treaty ports and rural producers, the domestic market, and the financing and organization of the modern sector. Such important issues as the "sprouts of capitalism" argument and Japan's assumption of first position in the modern world silk market are authoritatively and convincingly illuminated.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Asia Center
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Harvard East Asian Monographs
Release date:	August 1981
First published:	August 1981
Authors:	Lillian M. Li
Dimensions:	230 x 150 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-11962-8
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-674-11962-2
Barcode:	9780674119628

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