Loaded with Chinese silk, porcelain, and lacquerware, the junks visited ports around the Indian Ocean. Here, Arab and African merchants exchanged the spices, ivory, medicines, rare woods ...

From the crackling of Ru porcelain to shadow puppetry, Khoomei throat singing to music boxes with ancient tunes, traditional ...

Porcelain, often referred to as "white gold," has captivated societies across the globe for centuries with its delicate ...

Liu Yu, a representative inheritor of Honglücai Porcelain from the Dezhou Kiln, paints Honglücai Porcelain pieces in her studio. Photo: Courtesy of Sun Yi ...

German ceramic artist Karin Flurer-Bruenger views a set of porcelain themed with "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" at ...

researchers are collecting data from each ceramic fragment to methodically build what they call a "genetic map" of ancient China's porcelain heyday. The project has already cataloged about 10,000 ...