On March 20, 2021, a lecture on Maritime Silk Road and Chinese export porcelain was held at Jiangxi Provincial Museum. The speaker was Wei Jun, Secondary Research Fellow and doctoral supervisor of Fudan University.
The lecture began with an interpretation of the spatial-temporal pattern of the Maritime Silk Road and presented Chinese scholars' research results on export porcelain. The speaker introduced the types and characteristics of export porcelain, aiming to provide the audience a better understanding of the origins, development and evolution of China's export porcelain.
The Maritime Silk Road has seen its development and prosperity for over two thousand years. Since the Tang and the Five Dynasties, as the most important export commodity, porcelain had connected the East with South and West Asia, the Mediterranean and the American continent. Beginning from the 20th century, rich underwater cultural heritage found in sea waters of Asia and Europe, porcelain discovered in terrestrial archaeological excavations and export vessels in private or public collections in China and overseas have jointly drawn an attractive picture of trade and cultural communication, which is testimony to the fact that marine trade is changing the whole world.
Source: Xinhua News Agency (abridged)