Zhang, Meng. Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021.

Yiwen Li, Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, merchants, and exchanges between China and Japan, 839-1403ce (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Names of Japanese Monks mentioned: 

Names of Places: 

1.      Gerritsen, Anne. The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

2.      Duan, Xiaolin. An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500-1700. Lanham: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022.

About the sound quality of this episode: The studio where I usually record my podcast now has some technical glitches, and this episode is recorded at home with headphones.

Rosenthal, Gregory. "Boki's Predicament: Sandalwood and the China Trade." In Beyond Hawai'i: Native Labor in the Pacific World, 16-47. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018.

Allsen, Thomas T. The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in

Book information:

Schafer, Edward H. The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T’ang Exotics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

Every PhD student in North America undergoes the Comps at some moment, but I chose to turn it into a podcast.