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Silk Weaving Industry and the Westward Expansion of the Han Dynasty.

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正題名/作者:	Silk Weaving Industry and the Westward Expansion of the Han Dynasty./
作者:	Cheung, Shin Yee.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (344 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-10B.
標題:	Fine arts. -
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ISBN:	9798209998372

Silk Weaving Industry and the Westward Expansion of the Han Dynasty.
Cheung, Shin Yee.

Silk Weaving Industry and the Westward Expansion of the Han Dynasty. - 1 online resource (344 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2021.

Includes bibliographical references

The Han Dynasty has been regarded as the first prosperous period in the history of Chinese silk weaving. Silk completely replaced linen and became the most important textile material in China. At the time of the mid-Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu implemented a new foreign policy, sending Zhang Qian to contact countries in Central Asia and opening a route from Han to Central Asia. From then on the amount of silk transported to the west increased, reaching as far as Rome. Thus silk has become the world famous product to open the Han Dynasty's importance to the world history. Silk weaving and foreign trade of Han Dynasty are two main elements involved in this material culture history. There are many studies on each of these elements. The research on silk weaving of the Han Dynasty is mostly about handicraft industry and textile technology, the results of these studies enrich the description of the social and economic history and the history of science and technology of the Han Dynasty. Regarding the silk trade between the Han Dynasty and the West, many scholars have tried to estimate its trade scale, destination, and influence, in order to understand material and cultural exchanges in the ancient Euroasia world. These two elements have their own research purposes, however, they were seldom fully integrated. As a result, the narrative and inference about the silk trade to the west is rarely based on the societal and cultural development of the Han Dynasty. This inevitably leads to bias and misjudgment. Since the 1970s, a large number of silk relics of the Han Dynasty and its previous era have been unearthed in China, enabling the world to reinvestigate the achievement of silk weaving in the Han Dynasty and rewrite its textile history. The rich unearthed relics, however, might also provide a new perspective on the iii relationship between the Han Dynasty silk industry and the westward silk trade. As silk was almost exclusively produced in and exported from the Han Dynasty at that time, the situation of the Han China should play a key role in studying the silk trade to the west. Only by understanding the Han society and its sericulture and silk weaving industry, can we have a basis for inferring the actual situation of the silk exportation to the west. The silk relics from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Han Dynasty are the main materials employed in this thesis, combined with bamboo slips and history documents. Take the reign of Emperor Wu as the boundary, the development of silk weaving technology, productivity, consumption, and trade is observed. This study is to examine what were the main factors that contributed to the prosperity of the silk industry in Han Dynasty and whether these factors appeared after Emperor Wu's connection with the West. What were the role of Hexi, the gateway to the West, and the role of Chinese merchants in the silk trade in this start-up stage of the Silk Road. Through the investigations mentioned above, assess whether the silk industry of the Han Dynasty was affected by the opening of the Silk Road; clarify some customary statements that have long existed but have not been thoroughly investigated.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798209998372Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122690
Fine arts.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Silk weavingIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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