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The China History Podcast

Ep. 179 | The Ancient History of Silk

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Society & Culture, History

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Thanks to Carole in Virginia for giving me enough of a push to get this episode finally produced. This might have been one of the first ten topics I came up with when I began writing the original list back in 2010. The history of silk is really an amazing testament to humankind's ingenuity and the randomness of life since Neolithic times. I hope you enjoy this episode. It turned out to be a much greater story than I was ever aware of.

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0:48.8

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0:52.4

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0:53.0

Hey everybody, Lhasla Montgomery, still no intro music, and from the response as I got from the

0:58.9

inquiry I made last episode into how all y'all's thought about it. It's looking like there will be no

1:06.7

melodic tones forthcoming, at least in the near term. This is the second podcast in a

1:11.9

row where the scheduled topic was preempted by a sudden inspiration from one of you, my listeners, to do something else.

1:20.0

That happened last time with William Mezny and now again with this silky smooth topic.

1:26.0

You remember 40 episodes ago I did this 10-part series where I discussed the history of tea from Shanong to the Qing Dynasty.

1:35.6

Well, today's subject, the history of silk is a story that I instructed my loyal

1:41.7

interns to condense down to a single episode.

1:46.0

You know me, if I could find some way to drag this one out eight or ten episodes, I'm more than

1:50.2

happy to do so.

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