Silk for silver: Dutch-Vietnamese relations, 1637-1700

Hoang, A.T. (2006)

Doctoral Thesis

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 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.

• Ceramics
• Coins
• Commerce
• Copper
• Gold
• Musk
• Politic
• 17th century
• Silk
• Silver
• The Netherlands
• Tonkin
• Vietnam
• VOC

• All authors: Hoang, A.T.
• Supervisor: Blussé van Oud-Alblas, H.J.; Gaastra, F.S.
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Faculty of Arts, Leiden University
• Date: 2006-12-07
• Court: LEI Universiteit Leiden
• Sponsorship: NWO, TANAP-Leiden