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 • Jan. 30, 2023

In Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, people mass- produced porcelain.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

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 • Sep. 26, 2021

“Chinamania” Inspired by his travels in China and by the kilns at Jingdezhen, contemporary artist Walter McConnell created an installation of Kangxi porcelains similar to those originally displayed in the Peacock Room.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2017

I did a 32-day bumbling walkabout in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Jingdezhen, Tunxi, and Hefei.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015