Silk for Silver: Dutch-Vietnamese relations, 1637-1700Against 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. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE SETTING | 9 |
THE POLITICAL RELATIONS | 59 |
THE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS | 125 |
DUTCHVIETNAMESE INTERACTIONS | 187 |
CONCLUSION | 215 |
APPENDICES | 221 |
Notes | 239 |
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Alexandre de Rhodes arrived in Tonkin Asia Banten Bengali silk BL OIOC Brouckhorst Buch capital Thăng Long cash catties cent China Chinese gold Chinese silk Chúa Trịnh Tráng Chúa’s Cochinchina commercial Company’s copper coins court Dagh-register Batavia Dagregister Đại Việt Dampier Deshima Doméa Dutch East India Dutch factors Dynasty early East India Company export of Tonkinese foreign merchants foreign trade Formosa Generale Missiven Gianh River Governor-General guilders Hanoi High Government Hội imported into Tonkin intra-Asian trade Japan Japanese copper Japanese silver Lê Dynasty Leonard Blussé Mạc mandarins Missive musk Nagasaki Netherlands Nguyễn Hoàng Nguyễn rulers northern Vietnam OIOC Phố Hiến piculs political porcelain Portuguese profit margins purchase Quinam sailed sent seventeenth century ships silk piece-goods silk to Japan southern taels Thăng Long Tinnam Tonkin factory Tonkin trade Tonkinese ceramics Tonkinese raw silk trade with Tonkin Trịnh rulers Trịnh Tạc Trịnh Tráng Verstegen VOC’s