More Than Just Expensive Vases

History of China 11: The Ming Dynasty

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Today in my History of China series we look at the Ming. They are perhaps the best known of the Chinese dynasties in the West, but it is a reputation forged in the empire’s porcelain kilns rather than for any of their other achievements. There is, not surprisingly, far more to them than ceramic exports, as I explore…