Wuxing canshu 吳興蠶書

Wuxing canshu 吳興蠶書 is a book on sericulture (silk production) of the region of Wuxing 吳興, Zhejiang. It was written during the early 19th century by Gao Quan 高銓 from Gui'an 歸安 (today's Huzhou 湖州, Zhejiang), where silk production was very widespread. Gao was therefore able to describe the rearing of silkworms in a very detailed and realistic way. The book was first published in 1890 by Shen Xizhou 沈錫周. Part of the text is quoted in Wang Yuezhen's 汪曰楨 (1813-1881) Hucanshu 湖蠶述.