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The Development
of Chinese Ceramics
A Brief Survey
Wang Qingzheng
Deputy Director,
The Shanghai Museum
Pottery is common to the entire human
race, but porcelain was a Chinese
invention.
Although pottery making might have
been unknown during the early
Neolithic era, the mature Neolithic era
was everywhere characterized by the
appearance of pottery. The date when
pottery first appeared in China remains to
