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Guest blog: Visualising china in China: life, labour and loss
Anne Gerritsen is the author of The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2020). She teaches Chinese history and global history at the University of Warwick and serves as the director … Continue reading
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Large pots at a pottery, c.1870
Mass production is nothing new to China, which has always been the world’s most populous country. Here (Bo02-049) large pots and blocks are being made, apparently in the thatched workshops. It looks like the large pots were made in two … Continue reading