Translation of: Chūgoku tōji shi.

Includes bibliographical references (247-249) and index.

Research on Chinese ceramics has progressed steadily in the twentieth century. There has been constant international interest in the subject, intensified by excavations in China since the 1950s. This book is intended to provide an up-to-date introduction to the history of Chinese ceramics from prehistory through the eighteenth century. That there are some differences between East and West in scholarly approach and methodology cannot be denied. This volume is offered as a Japanese piece of scholarship appearing in English for the first time and will, I hope, shed new light on the subject.-pg. xi.

"This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date history of the brilliant Chinese ceramics tradition, beginning with primitive neolithic earthenwares and tracing the development through Tang three-color ware to the unsurpassed blue-and-white and enameled porcelains of the Ming and Qing dynasties."

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