Mysterious China Blog

Founded during the Han era, this provincial capital flourished under the Ming Dynasty as a center of trade. However, it is best remembered as the scene of a significant uprising led by the Communist leader Zhou Enlai, who took control of the city for a few days in 1927. Although ...

The gateway to Lu Shan (Lu Mountain), the ancient port of Jiujiang, was used for shipping rice and tea and, during the Ming dynasty, porcelain from Jingdezhen. Badly damaged during the Taiping insurrection, it was later opened to foreign ...

For centuries the ceramic capital of China, Jingdezhen is still one of the country's major porcelain producers. Although pottery kilns were operating here as far back as the Han Dynasty, it was the discovery of real porcelain, during the ...