The Imperial Silk Factories of Kangxi in China, 1661-1722 A mirror for Louis XIV’s Royal Factories?

Li Wang ()
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Li Wang: Department of Early Modern History, GECEM Project, Universidad Pablo de Olavide

No 19.01, Working Papers from Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History

Abstract: This thesis explores the silk trade in China and Europe at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth century through a transnational point of view, taking an example of France, by comparing the imperial silk factories of the Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1661-1722) and the Grande Fabrique of Luis XVIII of France (1643-1715), analyzes the variation of business organization system, the manufacturing equipment scale, finance, personnel management, income and social status of the craftsmen, product types and sales, etc., which reflected the differences of the economic development strategies of the two monarchs; Like a butterfly effect, it could be inferred from the details of the official silk production and consumption in the studied geographical and time range, the causes and effects of diverse economic and political roads each monarch took subsequently.

Keywords: global history; consumption history; imperial silk factories of Kangxi period; Louis XIV’s royal factories; silk consumption; China; Qing Dynasty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2019-02
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