The Silk Princess story illustrates a cultural exchange from East to West.

Evidence

This story, plainly set out in three scenes, is a quirky document of a transforming shift of knowledge and skill from the East to the West. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 789

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 789
• XREF: connects to: Crusaders may have brought garden culture and song from the East — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 379; The East and West have coexisted in conflict and cooperation, not eternal clash — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 97; A shared East-West binary grounds vast and diverse bodies of thought (+1 more)