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ᘬණϓ [Annotated collection of historical documents on ancient Chinese ceramics]
(Shanghai: Shanghai wenhua chubanshe, 2006), 179, and for Jiang Qi’s years of writing,
see Xiong and Xiong, comps. (2006),179, fn. 2. See also Joseph Needham and Rose Kerr,
Ceramic Technology, Science and Civilisation in China (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004), 24.

5 For references to various publications that included these letters, see N. J. G. Pounds,
“The Discovery of China Clay,” The Economic History Review 1:1 (1948), 20-33.
Pounds discusses the origins of the two letters dated 1712 and 1722 written by a Pere
Francis D’Entrecolles, a French Catholic missionary who lived in Jiangxi province.
During his residence in Jiangxi and Beijing between 1698 and 1741, D’Entrecolles made
several espionage trips to Jingdezhen. He wrote about these trips in letters. After he sent
his letters as reports to his diocese in Europe, the letters reached readers almost
immediately as they were published in books in both English and French in 1717, 1735,
and 1736. In the nineteenth century, these volumes continued to receive much attention
in the growing scientific and artistic industry for knowledge about Jingdezhen porcelain.
Pere D’entrecolles letters or extractions of which, were published in J.B. Du Halde,
Description Geographique de l’empire de la chine (Paris: P.G. Lemercier, La Haye, 1735)
II, 188-199. They were reprinted in the same book but second version, in J.B. Du Halde
Description Geographique de l’empire de la chine (Paris: La Haye, 1736). There was an
English version that also contained the letters published in 1736: J.B. Du Halde, The
General History of China, trans., Richard Brooks (London: J. Watts, 1736), 312-319.
The letters were published along with other letter reports written by Jesuits in the mission
fields under the name Lettres edifiantes et curieuses (Paris: n.p., 1717) XII, 253; a second
edition appeared in 1781.

6
Fuliang taozhengzhi has been reprinted in Feng Xianmingඹ΋თ, comp., Zhongguo
gutaociwenxian jishi ʕ਷̚ௗନ˖ᘠණᙑ [Annotated Collection of Historical
Documents on Ancient Chinese Ceramics] (Hong Kong: Yishujia chuban she, 2000), 97-
102.

7 See bibliographic entry for Fuliang taozhengzhi in Needham and Kerr, Ceramic
Technology (2004), 802.

8
Needham and Kerr, Ceramic Technology, 22, fn. 109. Needham and Kerr point out that
the Jiangxi tongzhi of 1881 is described as being the most detailed in extracting passages
from pre-Yuan dynasty passages and the abridged edition is identified as the Fuliang
taozhengzhi.

9
Jiangxi tongzhi, Yongzheng edition (1732) and Guangxu edition (1881). They are both
located in the National Taiwan University Library in Taipei, Taiwan. The Jiangxi
tongzhi, Guangxu edition (1881) ceramic sections are published in Xiong and Xiong,
comps. (2006), 91-92. For the Jiangxi sheng dazhi of 1556 and 1597 see: Xiong and
Xiong, comps. (2006),32 and 37.