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Silk. Silver. Gunpowder. The China Trade That Changed History – Pembroke Michael – CoLibri – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-389-30907-4

Silk. Silver. Gunpowder. The China Trade That Changed History
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Over several millennia, the West's relationship with China has evolved from admiration to contempt and then back to admiration, now mingled with fear of retribution for past humiliations. Michael Pembroke has studied this entire journey, drawing on a vast array of sources. His book has resonated widely in Western society. It explores not only the history of the silk, porcelain, and tea trades, and the fashion for chinoiserie, but also the cynical, forced "opening of China" through the drugging of the country's population with opium, the theft of tea seedlings and cultivation techniques, the direct military invasion of colonial powers, and the destruction and plunder of cultural heritage.

Sima Qian, the great historian of the Han Dynasty, wrote, "He who does not forget the past masters the present." Much of China's contemporary relationship with the West is a consequence of past interactions, conflicts, victories, and defeats. And many current trouble spots are long-standing sources of pain.
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