"This handsome book is at once a general survey of Chinese ceramics from the early Neolithic period to the present day and an essential reference volume for art historians and connoisseurs ... This edition, written in the light of ... enhanced knowledge, presents a far more deta…
"A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family's hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu…
"A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family's hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu…
Sold by his father for four guineas, Patrick Devlin knows just how cheap life is in a world of slavery, violence and greed. Once a servant but now a pirate captain, Devlin is blackmailed into joining he chase for the secret of porcelain making in order to save the lives and libe…
Sold by his father for four guineas, Patrick Devlin knows just how cheap life is in a world of slavery, violence and greed. Once a servant but now a pirate captain, Devlin is blackmailed into joining he chase for the secret of porcelain making in order to save the lives and libe…
We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chinese porcelains. Many of these were made in the kilns in and surrounding Jingde…