The first comprehensive history of China's most luxurious textile and its enduring influence on Chinese civilization and art Over the past fifty years, archaeol

Arthur Sze has rare qualifications when it comes to translating Chinese: he is an award-winning poet who was raised in both languages. A second-generation Chine

Paleography, which often overlaps with archaeology, deciphers ancient inscriptions and modes of writing to reveal the knowledge and workings of earlier societie

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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Technology of Silk -- The State and Traditional Enterprise -- The Silk Export Trade -- Foreign Trade and Domestic Gr