Where the Roads Met: East and West in the Silk Production Process (17th to 19th Century). (book reviews)

To what extent did Chinese silk technology influence the development of European sericulture? How did Europeans try to acquire technological information from East Asia? These constitute the central themes of Where the Roads Met. Though brief, perhaps too brief, it provides concrete new data and ideas for rethinking the history of East-West technological transfer, especially after the seventeenth century, and promises a more detailed and systematic study in the future.

This short book contains two lectures delivered in April 1993 at the Italian School of East Asian Studies in Kyoto. In ...

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