China's porcelain capital the rise, fall and reinvention of ceramics in Jingdezhen /
"Gillette explores the impact of state involvement in Jungdezhen's porcelain production, particularly during the momentous 20th century. She considers how the Chinese government has consumed, invested in, taxed, and managed the ceramics industry, and the effects of state intervention on ce...
| Main Author: | Gillette, Maris Boyd, |
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| Other Authors: | ProQuest (Firm) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London, England :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Series: |
Ebook Central (EBC)
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The world's most famous ceramics and the people who made them
- Creating a porcelain capital, prehistory to 1785
- Decline and disarray, 1780-1948
- Production and politics, 1949-1972
- Dual-track porcelain, 1973-1993
- Porcelain capital no more, 1994-2010
- From porcelain capital to heritage site.