Episode 8: Challenges for Chinese porcelain

My Stories of Chinese Porcelain by podcastcp

May 31, 20209:10Society & Culture

Despite China inventing porcelain and dominating worldwide production and trade for centuries, from the 19th century, due to the Western world's industrialization, the entire Chinese porcelain industry lagged far behind.

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