One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937, by Lynda Schaefer Bell. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xvii, 290 pp. $51.00 U.S. (cloth). Silk is the epitome of Chinese culture, rich, soft, lustrous, the ultimate symbol of luxury. Silk has had...

Spinning threads of progress.
At the entrance to a long, concrete shed surrounded by high; green mulberry bushes, Kee Wook Sohn dons Chinese slippers. He skirts a narrow, wooden tub squirming with fat, white silkworms, passes a room of Colombian scientists, and glides towards a climate-controlled chamber stacked with large, glass incubators. "We've developed...

Himfr.com Analyzes China's Silk Market.
BEIJING, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Himfr.com (http://www.himfr.com/ ), one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, recently analyzed China's silk (http://www.qualitydress.com/buy-silk/ ) market in 2008. Accordingly to Himfr.com, in the beginning of the year, silk prices experienced a rebound, and...

New silkworm hybrids boost RP silk industry.
Byline: Madel R. Savater The Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI) has developed 10 new silkworm hybrids that would help the country's textile industry produce more quality silk fabrics and thus help it gain competitiveness in the global market. PTRI is a government agency under the...

New silkworm hybrids boost RP silk industry.
Byline: MADEL SABATER The Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI) has developed 10 new silkworm hybrids that would help the country's textile industry produce more quality silk fabrics and thus help it gain competitiveness in the global market. PTRI is a government agency under the Department...

Paola Lanaro, ed.: At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800.
Paola Lanaro, ed. At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800. Toronto: Victoria University/University of Toronto Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2006. Paperback $32. 412 pp. + maps and illustrations. Review by R. BURR LITCHFIELD, BROWN UNIVERSITY. ...

Hanging by a thread: Bangkok's oldest Muslim community made its fortune weaving Thai silk for a legendary American entrepreneur during the post-war boom. But today, only one of the original weaving families is keeping the tradition alive.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There are many ways to get to Ban Khrua, a dense thicket of low-rise houses in the heart of the Thai capital, Bangkok. But none is as satisfying, or as steeped in the city's lore, as walking the back alleys from ultramodern Siam Square to...

Benguet celebrates 106th anniversary; Benguet towns display finest in Adivay festival fair.
Byline: DEXTER A. SEE LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- The showdown between Benguet's 13 municipalities formally started as the provincial government officially opened the agro-industrial trade fair as part of the joint celebration of the 106th Benguet foundation day on Thursday and the famous Adivay Festival. ...

Silk and empire.
0719067006 Silk and empire. King, Brenda M. Manchester U. Pr. 2005 195 pages $80.00 Hardcover Studies in imperialism HD9926 This work explores the history of Indian and English silk...

One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937.
One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937. By Linda S. Bell (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xvi plus 290 pp. $49.50). The debate on issues related to development in late imperial and modern China has been at the center of scholarship,...