Sea of Silk BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Retailing ‘The Watermelon Caretaker’ (Rosieda Shabodien)

‘The Watermelon Caretaker’ (Rosieda Shabodien)

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Sea of Silk BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Retailing ‘The Watermelon Caretaker’ (Rosieda Shabodien)The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India. But if we shift our focus from economic histories that chart the exchange of silk along Asian and Mediterranean trade routes to medieval literary depictions of silk, a strikingly different