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This book focuses on Chen Qiyuan, a pioneer of Modern industry in China,
who founded the first silk filature in south China in 1873. Chen left Nanhai, his
native village, to Annam where, after becoming a highly successful businessman, he spent six years learning the new technology of making good quality silk.
Despite the numerous difficulties in setting up his own filature back home: lack
of infrastructure for machinery, opposition from local villagers...
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