BBC: China in Six Easy Pieces (of porcelain)

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BBC feature originally broadcast in 2013: "Lars Tharp journeys through a thousand years of Chinese history to uncover what six pieces of porcelain tell us about Chinese emperors, scholars, workers, merchants and artists."

Available on YouTube in 4 segments:

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiELdRhZloM

2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ-3ssa82OA

3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr1EVE_sbZM

4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhcmtQSTjf8

Excellent program that takes you from Hangzhou, capital of the Southern Song Dynasty to Beijing. Great way to bring material culture into discussions of China's past and its present.

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