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Tao lu refer to the Mian Lian edition unless otherwise indicated and follow this format:
Jingdezhen Tao lu, juan # (if relevant), page #.
22
See Zheng Tinggui’s postscript to Jingdezhen Tao lu, 277, where he writes: ۧɚɤϋ
Ӷ. The postscript (shuhouࣣܝ) was dated 1815.
23 Jingdezhen Tao lu, 277.
24 The characters written by Zheng Tinggui were: ႊᄻ⦨ʕ. See Jingdezhen Tao lu,
277.
25 Jingdezhen Tao lu, 277, paragraph 1. Again, current Chinese language scholarship on
this book, its authors, and its contents is scant. I have relied on the analysis and
discussion of the Jingdezhen Tao lu presented in the preface of the Mian Lian edition.
See Lu Jiaming ጅ, “Zhuan lun: Jingdezhen Tao lu chu tan,” ਖ਼ሞ: ౻ᅃᕄௗ ڋ
ઞ [Special discussion on the Jingdezhen Tao lu] in Jingdezhen Tao lu, ed., Mian Lian
(Jinan: Shandong huabao, 2004), 1-29.
th
26 See “Qingshilu, Jiaqing 7 year, 5 month, juan 918.” Qingshilu, Hanji quanwen
th
ziliao ku ဏᘬΌ˖༟ࣘࢫ Academia Sinica. National Taiwan University Library,
Taipei, TW. Accessed on February 2, 2007
<<http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~tdbproj/handy1/>>
27
Jingdezhen Tao lu, 1.
28 I thank Professor Kuiyi Shen and senior curator of painting department Shan Guolin
for enabling my access to the Shanghai Museum library and the research conducted on
the editions of books.
29 Jingdezhen Tao lu, 277.
30 Jingdezhen Tao lu, juan 2, 61: ʦɪ˸Ը, ൝ਫ਼ືᄉ, ӊϋௗኜც͜ೌε.
31
Jingdezhen Tao lu, juan 5, 141.
32
In Chinese characters, the chapter name is: ௗႭᕏᇜ.
33 Clunas, Superfluous Things; Percival David, trans., Chinese Connoisseurship: The Ko
Ku Yao Lun, the Essential Criteria of Antiquities (1971). In “Luxury Knowledge: The
Xiushilu ‘records of lacquering’ of 1625,” Techniques & Culture 29 (Jan-June 1997): 27-
40, Clunas makes the point that how-to guides that purported to transmit knowledge
were ultimately failures because they did not survive in China, such as the Tiangong
kaiwu. But they were reprinted and collected in the Qing imperial library project, Siku
