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Art From Fire

very morning at dawn, Huang Xiaoling, 53, devotes herself wholeheartedly to designing three sketches for her porcelain works. She is an expert in the creation of polychrome porcelain, an art that is part of China’s intangible cultural heritage. She enjoys creating these porcelain works, allowing her to maintain her innovative spirit. In her eyes, the china from her hometown, Liling in Hunan Province, is magnificent, even though it is not as famous as that from Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province and Yixing in Jiangsu Province. In fact, the porcelain

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