Jingdezhen

American  

[jing-dœ-jœn] / ˈdʒɪŋˈdœˈdʒœn /

(Wade-Giles) Chingtechen

noun

Pinyin.

1. a city in eastern Jiangxi province, in eastern China: known for its fine porcelain.

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Jingdezhen British  

/ ˈdʒɪŋˈdɛdʒɛn /

noun

1. a city in SE China, in NE Jiangxi province east of Poyang Lake: famous for its porcelain industry, established in the sixth century. Pop: 416 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

In August she spent another month in Kunming, the capital of the mountainous Yunnan province, followed by a brief sojourn in Jingdezhen, the “Porcelain Capital” of China, where she studied ceramics.

From Los Angeles Times

Wedgwood’s white whale was porcelain, or “white gold”: the delicate import, most famously from Jingdezhen, China, that was ardently collected by European royalty, decorating a pavilion for Louis XIV’s extramarital trysts at Versailles and a Polish king’s palace in Dresden.

From New York Times

This month, for example, hundreds of home buyers in Jingdezhen, a ceramics-making city in southern China, organized protests over fears that Evergrande would collapse before it finished handing over legal ownership of their apartments.

From New York Times

After the protests in Jingdezhen, a social media page operated by a nearby county government carried warnings that the home buyers could be arrested for demonstrating.

From New York Times

The Yongle court was known to have ushered in a new style to the porcelain kilns in the city of Jingdezhen, and the bowl is a quintessential Yongle product, according to Sotheby’s.

From Washington Times