Word: jingdezhen
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...lived here until he was fifteen, at which point, in 1978, the government opened up the universities to all applicants and he entered the Jingdezhen Ceramics College having only a homeschooled education. His reason for choosing ceramics over any other artistic medium or any other lifestyle is remarkable in that—as far as he explained—there really wasn’t one. At that age, he had no great love for or experience in the art of working clay...
Four years later, having earned his bachelor’s degree, he became a teacher at the university. He was nineteen at the time; most of his students were older than he was. He remained a member of the faculty at Jingdezhen until 1994 when he transferred to the arts and crafts department of the Beijing Fashion Academy for a year. Since then he has served as a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing...
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