Great Trade Walls in Imperial China and Spain

This book offers a comparative and polycentric approach to the formation of global trade networks and goods that circumnavigated China, America, and Europe in the so-called process of “early globalization” during the early modern period. Based on a pioneering archival strategy developed by GECEM Project (Global Encounters between China and Europe www.gecem.eu ) and funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the chapters in this volume deploy innovative methodology built on the process of clu