"Kapok" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Chinese agriculture: cotton. It is often forgotten that, from very early times, the Chinese in the south had used kapok and similar fibres, and that the cocoons of different kinds of worms had been used for silk. Real cotton probably came from Bengal over South-East Asia first to the coastal provinces of China and spread quickly into Fukien and ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard |
