About the Author

Stacey Pierson is a senior lecturer in the History of Chinese ceramics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Reviews

This book has an impressive historical scope, from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century. It ranges over a variety of interesting topics relevant to the history of a famous commodity. In addition to discussing the economic production, social use, and reception of Ming porcelain throughout the world, it offers a novel and often amusing account of the treatment of Ming porcelain in modern popular U.K. and U.S. cultures. It also presents extensive coverage of recent English-language work on Chinese porcelain, and it attempts to put the study of Ming, and by extension Chinese, porcelain in a wider conceptual framework, that of transcultural shifts in the use and meaning of art objects. -- Joe P. McDermott, University of Cambridge Essential. Choice