https://aeon.co/essays/the-tree-as-foot-soldier-of-chinese-merchants-and-empire… Created Fri, 14/07/2023 - 20:00 Updated Fri, 14/07/2023 - 20:00 How the trees of China – fir, camphor, ironwood and nanmu – were used to build an empire that lasted for centuries - by Ian M Miller Read at Aeon
