An Object of Seduction: The Early Modern Trans-Pacific Silk Trade
An Object of Seduction: The Early Modern Trans-Pacific Silk Trade
Xiaolin Duan
3-4 sessions
This module looks into the 16th-18th century Asia-Pacific silk trade, with a particular focus on southeast China, Manila in Philippine, and New Spain (colonial Mexico). It traces the production, consumption, and regulation of Chinese silk textiles as they circulated through the social worlds and trade networks. Taking a comparative perspective, this module focuses on the similarities and interconnectedness between Ming dynasty China and colonial Mexico to understand how the fashion of wearing silk textiles contributed to the formation of the global market and affected the traditional empires.
Silk Trade 0.0 Schedule at a glance
Silk Trade 0.1 About this module for Students_final
Silk Trade 0.2 About this module, for instructor
Silk Trade 0.4 Timeline (list format）
Silk Trade 0.5 Timeline (table format)
Silk Trade 1.2 Lecture note_introduction
Silk Trade 1.3 Marks_chapter 3
Silk Trade 1.4 Oxford History of Mexico Title page and pg 115-150
Silk Trade 1.6a Instructor_s manual for Marks chapter 3
Silk Trade 1.6b Key points discussed in Chinese history textbooks
Silk Trade 1.6c Key points discussed in Mexico textbooks
Silk Trade 2.1 Lecture note_Sericulture
Silk Trade 2.2 The Production of Silk
Silk Trade 2.3 Pictures of tilling and weaving_for instructor
Silk Trade 2.4 Sierra Texupan Codex_for instructor
Silk Trade 2.5 bianmin tuzuan Silk Trade 2.2 The Production of Silk
Silk Trade 2.6 Pictures of Tilling and Weaving_intro+translationSilk Trade 2.2 The Production of Silk
Silk Trade 2.7 Sierra Texupan Codex
Silk Trade 3.2 Lecture note_Fashion
Silk Trade 3.3 Primary source on Fashion in New Spain
Silk trade 3.4 Primary sources on Fashion in China
Silk Trade 3.5 Casta paintings
Silk Trade 3.6 Clothes in Chinese paintings
Silk Trade 4.2 Lecture note_trade
Silk Trade 4.3 Chinese primary sources on trade
Silk Trade 4.4 Spanish primary sources on trade
Silk Trade 4.5 Ma_The Great Silk Exchange
Silk Trade 4.6 extant Chinese and Mexican textiles
Silk Trade 5.1 Assignments and activities
Silk Trade 5.2 Review questions
Silk Trade 5.3 Lecture Note_ conclusion remarks