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Did you know that the fan, which was used in Japan by men, became transformed into a female European accessory when it was adopted by the Portuguese Queen in Lisbon?
The Cape Route was opened in 1499 to bring spices to Europe, but the Portuguese vessels also brought other products from the lands of Asia, while European technology and science, Christianity and American silver reached every corner of Asia. The Cape Route enabled products and ideas to circulate within the Silk Roads system, involving Eurasia from West to East, and transformed Lisbon into the hub that spread new patterns of consumption and new fashions in Europe. It also introduced new forms of warfare, new scientific knowledge and a new religion throughout Asia.
The Cape Route was opened in 1499 to bring spices to Europe, but the Portuguese vessels also brought other products from the lands of Asia, while European technology and science, Christianity and American silver reached every corner of Asia. The Cape Route enabled products and ideas to circulate within the Silk Roads system, involving Eurasia from West to East, and transformed Lisbon into the hub that spread new patterns of consumption and new fashions in Europe. It also introduced new forms of warfare, new scientific knowledge and a new religion throughout Asia.
Price: $122.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes
Publication Date:
16 July 2026
ISBN: 9789004761834
Format: Hardcover
João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, (Ph.D. 1998), NOVA/FCSH, is Professor of the Department of History at that University and the coordinator of the UNESCO Chair “The Ocean's Heritage”. He was editor of the Bulletin of Portuguese-Japanese Studies (2000-2010) and has published monographs and articles on the Portuguese Overseas Expansion and Early Modern World Globalisation. His last book was Portugal na História. Uma Identidade (2022).
Carmen Amado Mendes, Ph.D. (2004), School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London, is President of the Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre (Lisbon) and Professor of International Relations of the University of Coimbra, where she established the course “China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries in World Trade”. She is the author of China and the Macau Negotiations, 1986-1999 (HKUP, 2013) and China’s New Silk Road: An Emerging World Order (Routledge, 2019), as well as other publications on China’s foreign policy.
Carmen Amado Mendes, Ph.D. (2004), School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London, is President of the Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre (Lisbon) and Professor of International Relations of the University of Coimbra, where she established the course “China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries in World Trade”. She is the author of China and the Macau Negotiations, 1986-1999 (HKUP, 2013) and China’s New Silk Road: An Emerging World Order (Routledge, 2019), as well as other publications on China’s foreign policy.