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More Than Just Expensive Vases

More Than Just Expensive Vases

History of China 11: The Ming Dynasty

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Oct 30, 2021
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Hello and welcome to What China Wants.

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…

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