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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791294203321

Autore

Lim Tai-Wei

Titolo

Fired clay in four porcelain clusters : a comparative study of energy use, production/environmental ecology, and kiln development in Arita, Hong Kong, Jingdezhen, and Yingge / / Tai Wei Lim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7618-6429-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

333.7916

Soggetti

Energy conservation - Asia

Ceramic industries - Technological innovations - Asia

Kilns - Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Japanese Trade Ceramics in the Premodern Global Trading Space; 2 Interpretations of Japanese Modernity; 3 Energy Transition in Creative Production; 4 Blue and White Fired Clay in Everyday Lives; 5 Ideas about Resource Use and the Natural Environment in Pottery-making; 6 Post-Modernism and Pottery-Making; 7 Negotiating the Narrative of the "Last Frontier"; 8 Shek Kip Mei's Artistic Green Village; 9 Fieldwork in Arita; 10 A History of Jingdezhen Kilns, Its Development, and Energy Use (with Comparative References to Arita)

11 Yingge - The Town, Its Developmental History, and Energy Use12 Conclusion; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This book examines how energy use has evolved with technological advancements and changing social norms and ideas in environmental conservation and productive output in the ceramics-making industry. The four cities or towns of Arita, Hong Kong, Jingdezhen, and Yingge are the settings for this research.</span></span>