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China's "Porcelain Capital" is Jingdezhen, a city in Jiangxi best-known for its 1700-year-old pot-making tradition. There are more pots in Jingdezhen than in the rest of China combined. It is here where the imperial pot makers of Beijing's Forbidden City set up shop, and although none of them can be traced today, there are still hundreds of kilns around town, catering to seekers of some of China's finest porcelain. A bus away from Nanchang and Hangzhou, Jingdezhen is a bit dirty with a lot of demolitions going around, but the city's People's Park still bustles with activity since it is...

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