This book provides a condensed, comprehensible, but complete overview of the history of Chinese porcelain.
By studying the most notable characteristics of porcelain in different periods throughout history, it explores the evolution of the great kilns, and describes the influence of factors such as social and economic development, political change, and foreign cultures.
Each one of these affected porcelain's shapes, uses, colors, styles, patterns, and other features in unique ways.
Shanghai Press An illustrated brief history of chinese porcelain: history - culture - aesthetics, paperback/yang guimei
