A Tang Dynasty (618-907) black-glazed waist drum housed at the Palace Museum in Beijing. CHINA DAILY The fame of China's porcelain capital Jingdezhen, a city in Jiangxi province, has drawn tourists ...

Porcelain, one of ancient China's oldest and greatest inventions, has played a significant role in the country's long history. The word "porcelain" was probably first used by the celebrated traveler ...

Staff work at a workshop of a Ru porcelain manufacturer in Baofeng County, central China's Henan Province, Nov. 22, 2017. Ru porcelain was named after one of five famous kilns producing the most ...

Known around the world as the "porcelain capital" of China, Jingdezhen in East China's Jiangxi Province is a city of immense cultural and historical significance. From the Song Dynasty (960-1279) to ...

JINGDEZHEN, China, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Liu Zili remembers the silence that fell when the kilns in Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, went cold. In the 1990s, as state-run porcelain factories ...

The westward spread of the Chinese ceramics, known as "white gold," saw these objects become a fascination in upper-class households—and resulted in a damaged relationship between empires. A Ming ...

In China’s porcelain capital of Jingdezhen, ceramics have been woven into the very fabric of the city for centuries. At its core, the Taoyangli historical and cultural district is a beacon of this ...

16th-century Chinese potters in Jingdezhen made the finest porcelain, a magical material never seen before. Only they knew the production process - a closely guarded secret. But over time Dutch ...

WASHINGTON -- Bits of pottery discovered in a cave in southern China may be evidence of the earliest development of ceramics by ancient people. The find in Yuchanyan Cave dates to as much as 18,000 ...