Silk for silver : : Dutch-Vietnamese relations, 1637-1700 / / Hoang Anh Tuan.

• Superior document: TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction, v. 5
• Author: Hoàng, Anh Tuá̂n.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction ; 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 296 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) :; illustrations, maps
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Against the background of a regional crisis caused by dynastic change in China and the closure of Japan in the middle of the seventeenth century, the Vietnamese kingdom of Tonkin rose to the fore as the major silk producing and exporting region in East Asia. Based on a wealth of so far unused primary sources from the Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives, this monograph explains how Dutch and Chinese maritime traders played a critical role in Tonkin’s dramatic emergence as a trading power. The author examines the vicissitudes in political relations, the varying trends in the VOC-Tonkin import and export trade, and the Dutch influence on the seventeenth-century Vietnamese feudal society.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Part One. The Setting -- Part Two. The Political Relations -- Part Three. The Commercial Relations -- Part Four. Dutch-Vietnamese Interactions -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.