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How were Chinese pots made, glazed and fired? Why did China discover porcelain more than 1,000 years before the West? What are the effects of China's influence on world ceramics? These questions (and many more) are answered in this history of Chinese ceramic technology, from the late Stone Age to the twenty-first century AD. The non-specialist reader will appreciate its unique coverage of research materials originally published in several languages.
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Chief Curator, Far Eastern Section, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Professor of Ceramics, Department of Ceramics, University of Westminster, Harrow.
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Science and Civilisation in China, Volume V, Part 12
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