Week 1 Readings

6. Video Appreciation 1: Touch the Green Porcelain of the Yue Kilns

This series focuses on introducing the evolution of China's porcelain ware tradition and its cultural and historical milieu. Filmed in three ancient capitals of Chinese porcelain—Dehua in Fujian Province, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province and Liling in Hunan Province—it elaborates on the preeminent position of porcelain and its manufacturing technology in the civilized history of China and the world, and shows the audience the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty in the heyday of ancient Chinese porcelain, including Ru, Guan, Ge, Ding and Jun. The film crew headed south to Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang to capture the most traditional Chinese porcelain-making techniques, to delve into the stories behind the porcelain and to demonstrate the evolution of China's porcelain over a thousand years.