China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842-1937

by Lillian M. Li

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674119622
• ISBN13: 9780674119628
• Release Date: August 1981
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"