WASHINGTON – Bits of pottery discovered in a cave in southern China may be evidence of the earliest development of ceramics by ancient people. The find in Yuchanyan Cave dates to as much as 18,000 ...

WASHINGTON -- Bits of pottery discovered in a cave in southern China may be evidence of the earliest development of ceramics by ancient people. The find in Yuchanyan Cave dates to as much as 18,000 ...

Foreign visitors view exhibits at the 2023 China Jingdezhen International Ceramic Expo in Jingdezhen City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Oct. 18, 2023. (Xinhua/Ma Ning) China's Jingdezhen and Türkiye ...

BEIJING – Pottery fragments found in a south China cave have been confirmed to be 20,000 years old, making them the oldest known pottery in the world, archaeologists say. The findings, which will ...

A Tang Dynasty (618-907) black-glazed waist drum housed at the Palace Museum in Beijing. CHINA DAILY The fame of China's porcelain capital Jingdezhen, a city in Jiangxi province, has drawn tourists ...

China hasn’t always been trying to catch up with the West. Gunpowder, the compass, paper and movable type: The Chinese are famous for inventing them all. A little less well known is that the Chinese ...

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Q I read your article about porcelain plates (Nov. 23) and was reminded of a set I have in my possession. My husband’s great-great grandfather, a wholesaler of spices in Gothenburg, Sweden, ordered ...