TY - BOOK AU - Gillette,Maris Boyd TI - China's porcelain capital: the rise, fall and reinvention of ceramics in Jingdezhen SN - 9781474259415 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Porcelain industry KW - China KW - Jingdezhen KW - History KW - Jingdezhen (China) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-172) and index; 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 N2 - "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 ceramists' lives, their local environment, and the nature of the goods they produce."--Page [4] of cover ER -