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progress: Wang Guangyao and Geng Baochang of the Palace Museum in Beijing; Chen

Ruiling of Tsinghua University School of Art and Design; Qin Dashu, Quan Kuishan,

and Freda Murck of Beijing University; Shan Guolin of the Shanghai Museum; Lu

Lingfeng of the University of Science and Technology of China; Rob Mintz and Bill

Johnston at the Walters Museum in Baltimore; and Chen Yuqian of the Jingdezhen

Ceramics Institute. Especially crucial to my learning, even today, has been my language

teacher, Chou Changjen of the International Chinese Language Program in Taipei.

A project about an object of such global scope necessitated funding from many

different institutions and sources. I would like to thank the UCSD Department of History,

the Needham Research Institute with funds provided by the Andrew Mellon Foundation,

and the Blakemore-Freeman Fellowship. Writing, travel, and purchases of expensive

digital images were also supported by the UCSD Chinese history program and the Chiang

Ching-kuo Foundation.

I am amazed that I have such loving friends and family and I hope that I can be

the same for them. I will start by buying them Precious “pots and pans” from Jingdezhen.

Christopher Lee, professor at University of British Columbia, has read chapters at last

minute requests. Jeremy and Aileen Kua provided housing during exigent times.

Jeannette Ibarra deserves special mention for making San Diego a home during the times

that I am here. My parents and my brother provided the most support of all and to them

this dissertation is dedicated.

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