Silk for silver: Dutch-Vietnamese relations, 1637-1700 Hoang, A.T.

way they could contrive to squeeze silver out of the factory by delivering low quality silk at high prices. 108 The delivery price of silk varied from person to person according

On the basis of these recommendations it was decided on 24 April 1663 to repromote the Tonkin factory to a permanent station for three cogent reasons: to

The procurement of local silk products for Japan, and, to a much lesser extent, gold for Coromandel, and silk piece-goods and other miscellaneous items such as musk for the

which covered the years between 1663 and 1677, the annual quantities of silver imported into Tonkin by the Dutch Company were particularly low compared to the

Basking in the glow of this intimate relationship, the Company’ s silk trade in Tonkin was conducted satisfactorily. In Japan, however, Tonkinese silk was still sold at

In a nutshell, the expansion of Tonkinese export ceramics to the regional markets in the early 1660s was stimulated by three main causes: the disruption of the traditional

2 On the basis of the information and analyses which have been reviewed in the preceding chapters, this part is devoted to sketching the major features of Dutch

Examining the general trend in the prices in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Vietnam, Nguyen Thanh Nha has concluded that, while the price level was quite stable in