THE WHITE ROAD

A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the k iln, and fuse into porcelain translucent, luminous, white.Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journ ey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mount ains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain. Along the way, he meets the witnesses to its crea tion/ tho...[Read more]