
Episode 8: Challenges for Chinese porcelain
Despite China inventing porcelain and dominating worldwide production and trade for centuries, from the 19th century, due to the Western wor...
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Porcelain, also called Chinese ceramics, is one of humanity's most ancient inventions. The stories behind this unique and exquisite material are fascinating, detailing how it made its way ac...

Despite China inventing porcelain and dominating worldwide production and trade for centuries, from the 19th century, due to the Western wor...

Traditionally, there are 72 steps involved in the making of one Chinese porcelain piece. Other traditional crafts, like weaving, blacksmithi...

Even though porcelain originated in China, only a few commercial brands were created there. Despite being 1,000 years behind, the European p...

Imari is a style of porcelain named after the Japanese port from which it was shipped to the West. At around the same period, the Chinese po...

Kraak ware has been popular in Europe for hundreds of years. However, it was not made in Europe but in China. To find out why this chinaware...

In Chinese pop singer Jay Chou's famous song "Blue and White Porcelain", he mistakenly suggests that the colors are a "light sky blue". In t...

Jingdezhen is known as China's porcelain capital because it has been producing Chinese ceramics for more than 1,000 years. How did the small...

One day in June 2005, Chinese fishermen found several pieces of ancient porcelain while out working on their boat. What information was foun...