China’s porcelain capital : the rise, fall and reinvention of ceramics in Jingdezhen 1st ed.

Author

• Gillette, Maris Boyd

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Language

English

ISBN

9781474259446

Series

Subject(s)

• ANTIQUITIES
• PORCELAIN

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Abstract

Maris Gillette’s groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China’s porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dynasty China to the present day.

Gillette explores how Jingdezhen has been affected by state involvement in porcelain production, particularly during the long 20th century. She considers how the Chinese government has consumed, invested in, taxed and managed the local ceramics industry, and the effects of this state intervention on ceramists’ lives, their local environment and the nature of the goods they produce. Gillette traces how Jingdezhen experienced the transition from imperial rule to state ownership under communism, the changing fortunes of the ceramics industry in the early 21st century, the decay and decline that accompanied privatisation, and a revival brought about by an entrepreneurial culture focusing on the manufacture of highly-prized ‘art porcelain’.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xii, 172 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Front matter
1. The World’s Most Famous Ceramics and the People Who Made Them 1–10
2. Creating a Porcelain Capital, Prehistory to 1785 11–28
3. Decline and Disarray, 1780–1948 29–42
4. Production and Politics, 1949–1972 43–70
5. Dual-Track Porcelain, 1973–1993 71–90
6. Porcelain Capital No More, 1994–2010 91–114
7. From Porcelain Capital to Heritage Site 115–132
Back matter

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00235/21	738.20951 Gil C	Online !	Available