Dear all,
For the May meeting, we will discuss issues including color, dyeing, surface, and materiality. Please read the following two recent articles. Note that the author of the first article, Rachel Silberstein, who is also one of the convenors of this group, will certainly be at at the discussion.
Rachel Silberstein, “The 72 Kinds”: The Cloth Classic, the Jiangnan Cotton Finishing Sector, and the Expansion of Cotton Dyeing in the Qing Dynasty, in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 69 (2026): 1–53.