Gillette presents readers with a comprehensive examination of the ways in which the government of China has controlled, invested in, taxied, managed, and consumed the products of the Chinese
porcelain industry, especially in the twentieth century. The book covers the history of China’s porcelain capital from prehistory to 1785, the decline and disarray of the industry from 1780 to
1948, the reinvigoration of production from 1949 through the early 1970s, the making of dual-track porcelain between the 1970s and the 1990s, the end of the porcelain capital from the nineties
to 2010, and the transition from porcelain capital to the heritage site at present. The author is a faculty member of the University of Missouri St. Louis. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc.,
Portland, OR (protoview.com)
