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CHAPTER  3  Enamelled  Porcelain  Consumption  in  Eighteenth-century  China


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                        (otherwise known as the late Ming period),   especially in the Jiangnan area. The

                        Jiangnan area (Map 1) is a geographical area of China, referring to lands immediately

                        to the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, including the southern part of


                        the Yangtze Delta.




































































                        37   See Denis C. Twitchett, Frederick W. Mote (eds.), The Cambridge History of China: Volume
                        8, The Ming Dynasty, Part II, 1368-1644 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
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