Guangzhen Zhou on tue 10 jul 07
CHINESE CLAYART, July 2007, Vol. 56.
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"CHINESE CLAYART" is a newsletter emailed to professional artists, curators,
collectors, writers, experts, educators and students in the ceramic field,
who want to know about ceramic art in China and things related. This
newsletter will be a bridge between China and Western countries for the
ceramic arts. Comments and suggestions are very welcome.
(Copyright 2007, the Chinese Ceramic Art Council, USA. All rights
reserved.)
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The Chinese Ceramic Art Council, USA
P.O. Box 1733, Cupertino, CA 95015, USA
Tel. 800-689-2529, Fax. 408-343-0117
Email: chineseclayart@hotmail.com.
Web: www.chineseclayart.com
Chief Editor: Guangzhen "Po" Zhou
English Editor: Deborah Bouchette
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LETTERS
Prices Raise in China
From Guangzhen Zhou, Chief Editor.
Most of the prices for raw materials and gasoline have risen, and the
currency exchange rate between the US and China has risen from 1:8.27 to
1:7.57 during the past two years. It is a difficult time to be doing
business with China now.
When the time is getting close to the Olympics in Beijing 2008, the prices
of many tourist areas have risen already compared with travel costs last
year, especially the prices for admission tickets and hotel rooms.
In the Ceramics China Tour of October 2007, we will not change our prices
until next year. This China trip will start in Beijing, then go to Xi'an,
Chongqing, the three Goarges, Wuhan, Jingdezhen, Yixing and Shanghai.
Also, we are going to raise some prices of our clay tools products in
October 1, 2007.
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TRAVEL
Find a Factory to Mass Produce Your Art Works in China
A Trip to Jingdezhen International Ceramic Fair 2007
During the trip of Oct 2007, we will join one of the largest ceramic events
in the world-the Jingdezhen Ceramic Fair 2007. The participants will able to
contact hundreds manufactories of China and find someone to help you to
reproduce your art works at very lower prices.
The ceramic fair has been held by the provincial and central government
since 2004. This year, it will be held Oct. 18-22, when there will be three
exhibition halls within twelve hundred booths from all over the nation and
other countries. They will include decorated ceramics, dinnerware ceramics,
industry / high-tech ceramics, architectural ceramics and sanitary ceramics.
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CALL ENTRY
Big Fish, Small Pot 3:
Third International Small Teapot Competition and Show
Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, California, USA
The First Prize will be a free trip of Ceramics China
Entry Deadline: December 10, 2007
Exhibition: February 21 through March 21, 2008
Artist's Reception: February 21, 2008, 6 to 9 pm
Juror: Guangzhen "Po" Zhou
Contact: Teapot Competition
Saddleback College Art Gallery
28000 Marguerite Parkway
Mission Viejo, CA 92692 USA
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NEW PRODUCTS at Chinese Clay Art
The new textural mat of "Embossed Meaningless English Words" has been just
arrived. Please visit our website www.ChineseClayArt.com to find out the
products. Also, started in September, we are going to get many things for
ceramic-jewelry artists; such as cords for hanging pendants, ceramics beads,
and some other jewelry art accessories.
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CONFERENCE AND EVENT
International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics (ISAC) 2009
March 2009, Beijing, China
Sponsored by: Shanghai Institute of Ceramics Chinese Academy of Sciences,
and the Palace Museum, Beijing China.
The previous International Symposiums on Ancient Ceramics (ISAC) have proven
to be high level academic symposiums and become an important platform for
academic exchange among ancient ceramic experts at home and abroad. The
ISAC has been held eight times before. At every symposium, there were about
one hundred scientists and experts that came from China, Italy, Iran, India,
Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand, United
States, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and more
than 100 research papers were presented. ISAC 2009 is scheduled to be held
in March of 2009 at the Palace Museum in Beijing.
This Symposium will invite famous ancient ceramics experts, researchers,
preservers and restorers of historical relics for participation. This
symposium will reflect and demonstrate recent research achievements in
scientific technology, techniques, raw materials, testing methods, kilns,
archaeology, imitation, restoration, and other fields in ancient ceramics,
as well as discussions on ceramic cultural relics and restoration plus
further developments in research on ancient ceramics.
Major subjects in this symposium:
* Scientific technology of ancient ceramics
* Testing methods
* Kilns and processes
* Imitation and discernment of the false from genuine
* Preservation and restoration
* Trade of ancient ceramics
* Ceramic archaeology
Application and submission of abstracts of research papers:
Deadline of application and submission of abstracts: Sep. 30, 2007.
Abstract of paper (in 500 to 1000 words in English) should be E-mailed to
the organizer. All the abstracts shall be reviewed by academic group of the
symposium for acceptance, and the result will be informed to every author.
Please deliver the abstracts to:
Ms. Tian Junjing jjtian@mail.sic.ac.cn
or Mr. Wang Haisheng wanghaisheng@mail.sic.ac.cn
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics Chinese Academy of Sciences
1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050, China
Registration Fee
1. The registration fee will be included in the next announcement.
2. The accommodations will be arranged by the organizer and paid by the
participants themselves.
Liaison
Mr. Zhang Shen or Mr. Chen Shiping
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics Chinese Academy of Sciences
1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050
Tel: 021-52411108, Fax: 021-52411107
Email: zhangshg@sunm.shcnc.ac.cn
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FEATURES (Three Gorges cruse is included in our China trip itinerary of
October 2007)
Three Gorges of the Yangtze River Dam Project
Major Controversial Construction Project to be Completed in 2009
The Three Gorges Dam has become a symbol of China's efforts to join the
modern world. Dr. Sun Yat Sen first suggested the dam in 1919, but it was
not begun until 1994 and will not be completed until 2009. When completed,
the Three Gorges Dam will be the world's largest at 7,575 feet long and 594
feet high. The reservoir behind the dam will reach 410 miles (about half the
length of California) up the Yangtze to Chongqing. Workers numbering between
20,000 and 30,000 have been working in shifts on a 24-hour schedule since
1994. A rough estimate of the total cost of the projection (including
inflation) is as high as $70 billion.
The dam's main purpose is to improve flood control and navigation on the
river. In addition, the dam will increase electric power production in China
by 20% in central China where it is really needed.
The dam will yield the same amount of electricity as 20 nuclear power
plants! Finally, the dam will boost fisheries, tourism, and recreational
activities in the area, and may be able to be used for irrigation for the
drought-prone provinces north of the Yangtze. However, the dam has been
controversial since its inception because of the 1.5 million people who will
need to be resettled from over 1,000 towns and villages and the loss of
precious farmland, endangered animal species, and historical sites. Some
opponents also fear that the reservoir will quickly become polluted from the
waste that will continue to be dumped directly into the river, with no
outlet. The Yangtze also carries a large amount of sediment, so the area
will have to be constantly dredged.
The river was blocked in June 2003 at the end of phase 2 of the construction
project, and the waters have started to rise. Currently it is 443 feet above
sea level, but will eventually reach 575 feet above sea level in 2009. There
are markers along the cliff faces of the Yangtze showing the current and
ultimate depths of the river. Some of the cliffs over the river will be
dynamited to prevent causing future problems to navigation.
Cruising the Three Gorges
The Three Gorges stretch upriver from the dam 118 miles towards Chongqing.
Qutang Gorge is closest to Chongqing and at 5 miles is the shortest and most
dramatic with 500 foot cliffs that have Mesozoic limestone peaks topping out
at over 4,000 feet. The Wu Gorge is also noted for its sheer cliffs and 12
cloud-covered mountains. The third gorge and the one closest to the dam is
the Xiling Gorge. It stretches over 41 miles and its cliffs looks much like
an elegant Chinese painted scroll. Passengers on cruise ships usually leave
their ships behind and board small sampans to tour the Lesser Three Gorges
in one of the Yangtze's tributaries. The rising waters have made this area
more accessible.
Yangtze River cruise ships such as the Viking River Cruises' Century Star
leaving Chongqing usually stop in Fuling to allow passengers to ride a
hydrofoil up the Wu River to see the beautiful Lotus Cave limestone rock
formations. The river cruise ships also stop at Shibaozhai (the Stone
Treasure Stockade) on the northern bank of the Yangtze. This stone temple is
a 12-story wooden structure built on a huge rock bluff. The Stone Treasure
Stockade was built during the Qing dynasty. Fortunately, the temple is high
enough that it will survive the rising waters, although its bluff will
become an island in the new lake.
Passengers cruising of the Yangtze get to stop at the construction site to
see the thousands of workers toiling away. The project has an information
center with photos and graphics demonstrating the status of the construction
and explaining what you are seeing. After cruising of the Yangtze for a
week, passengers disembark at Wuhan for the flight to Shanghai. Note that
cruises also run from Wuhan upstream to Chongqing.
Sailing the Yangtze at any time has to be a memorable trip. However, with
the ongoing construction, visitors today can return in the next decade to
see how the scenery has changed!
For some related photos:
http://forum.chinesenewsnet.com/showthread.php?t=193776
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http://www.chineseclayart.com
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Lee Love on wed 11 jul 07
On 7/10/07, Guangzhen Zhou wrote:
> TRAVEL
> Find a Factory to Mass Produce Your Art Works in China
> A Trip to Jingdezhen International Ceramic Fair 2007
> During the trip of Oct 2007, we will join one of the largest ceramic even=
ts
> in the world=97the Jingdezhen Ceramic Fair 2007. The participants will ab=
le to
> contact hundreds manufactories of China and find someone to help you to
> reproduce your art works at very lower prices.
I saw something like this on Japanese T.V. It is only a matter
of time before we are flooded by very cheap Chinese handmade work.
Watch the craft fairs fill up with perfect copies of of American
work!
John, Ron, Mona, are you translated into Chinese!?!?!
--=20
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
Henry David Thoreau
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi
Clayart SCtag on thu 12 jul 07
In a message dated 7/11/2007 11:43:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
togeika@CLAYCRAFT.ORG writes:
I saw something like this on Japanese T.V. It is only a matter
of time before we are flooded by very cheap Chinese handmade work.
Watch the craft fairs fill up with perfect copies of of American
work!
John, Ron, Mona, are you translated into Chinese!?!?!
I have always felt that if one has their work replicated cheaply by others
or mechanical means that the party making the reproductions might knock off
the goods and market them themselves. I seem to remember that art ''prints''
by mechanical means from an artist's work do not have copyright protection
due to the fact that the printer's expertise involved give them claims and
wonder how this ''having cheap copies knocked off overseas'' doesn't present
the same dilemma.
In the early 1970's when I was demonstrating at every event they wanted
someone to ''entertain and educate the public'' I had someone photo all my
booth's work and I later saw she had duplicated my entire output ,forms and
self made glazes, several months later at a craft fair I was to jury.
I have seen many artists and craftspersons' work similarly copied by
department stores here in our region where they must have bought a copy and taken
it overseas to make cheaply.
Good luck.....see y'all's work at the dollar store soon.
Meg
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Fred on thu 12 jul 07
---- Lee Love wrote:
>On 7/10/07, Guangzhen Zhou wrote:
>
>
>>TRAVEL
>>Find a Factory to Mass Produce Your Art Works in China
>>A Trip to Jingdezhen International Ceramic Fair 2007
>>During the trip of Oct 2007, we will join one of the largest ceramic even=
ts
>>in the world=E2=80=94the Jingdezhen Ceramic Fair 2007. The participants w=
ill able to
>>contact hundreds manufactories of China and find someone to help you to
>>reproduce your art works at very lower prices.
>
>I saw something like this on Japanese T.V. It is only a matter
>of time before we are flooded by very cheap Chinese handmade work.
>Watch the craft fairs fill up with perfect copies of of American
>work!
>
>John, Ron, Mona, are you translated into Chinese!?!?!
>
>--How sad it will be if this actually happens.--- another vocation and avo=
cation erased with
our rush to have every store be like Walmart
Fred Hagen
>Lee in Mashiko, Japan
>Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
>http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
>
>"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
>Henry David Thoreau
>
>"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi
>
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Lee Love on thu 12 jul 07
On 7/12/07, sacredclay wrote:
> Can any kind of legal actions be taken to stop this? Kathryn Hughes
It is totally legal to have your own work copied. But, I would
imagine it would be difficult to control what happened to your design,
after it was mastered by the factory workers.
As I said many years ago. It is only a matter of time before
we see good handmade ware coming from China. I have seen programs
on their conferences where they invite ceramics companies around the
world to China to display their work from their countries. It
dawned on me, seeing work from Scandinavia and other places in Europe,
that it was a great way to see was is wanted around the world, and
copy it.
--
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
Henry David Thoreau
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi
sacredclay on thu 12 jul 07
Can any kind of legal actions be taken to stop this? Kathryn Hughes
in NC --- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, Clayart SCtag
wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/11/2007 11:43:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> togeika@... writes:
>
> I saw something like this on Japanese T.V. It is only a matter
> of time before we are flooded by very cheap Chinese handmade work.
> Watch the craft fairs fill up with perfect copies of of American
> work!
>
> John, Ron, Mona, are you translated into Chinese!?!?!
>
>
>
>
> I have always felt that if one has their work replicated cheaply
by others
> or mechanical means that the party making the reproductions might
knock off
> the goods and market them themselves. I seem to remember that
art ''prints''
> by mechanical means from an artist's work do not have copyright
protection
> due to the fact that the printer's expertise involved give them
claims and
> wonder how this ''having cheap copies knocked off overseas''
doesn't present
> the same dilemma.
> In the early 1970's when I was demonstrating at every event they
wanted
> someone to ''entertain and educate the public'' I had someone
photo all my
> booth's work and I later saw she had duplicated my entire
output ,forms and
> self made glazes, several months later at a craft fair I was to
jury.
> I have seen many artists and craftspersons' work similarly copied
by
> department stores here in our region where they must have bought a
copy and taken
> it overseas to make cheaply.
> Good luck.....see y'all's work at the dollar store soon.
> Meg
>
>
>
> ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-
new AOL at
> http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour
>
>
______________________________________________________________________
________
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melpots@...
>
Dannon Rhudy on fri 13 jul 07
...........Can any kind of legal actions be taken to stop this? Kathryn
Hughes
in NC --- .........
No. There's no protection for handmade items.
And if the U.S. govt won't even stop tainted foods
from coming in from Communist China, nor do anything
about intellectual property theft - and they won't -
then "minor" items such as importing copies of
U.S. work won't even get a glance.
regards
Dannon Rhudy
Elizabeth Priddy on fri 13 jul 07
The action you can take is to design your work to
be as specific to YOU making it as possible.
Don't use chinese stencils and stamps if you want
your work to be too original to copy, for instance.
Potters have been able to skate on the "it's handmade,
so it's intrinsicly better" ice for a long time. Now it will
actually have to be better, because the imports are
handmade too.
It will be good for us ultimately, but some potters will
be thinned from the herd because of this.
The kitchen is getting hotter as we speak...
Elizabeth Priddy
Beaufort, NC - USA
Natural Instincts Conference Information:
http://downtothepottershouse.com/NaturalInstincts.html
http://www.elizabethpriddy.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7973282@N03/
----- Original Message ----
From: Dannon Rhudy
Subject: Re: Chinese Clay Art News 07/07
...........Can any kind of legal actions be taken to stop this? Kathryn
Hughes
in NC --- .........
No. There's no protection for handmade items.
And if the U.S. govt won't even stop tainted foods
from coming in from Communist China, nor do anything
about intellectual property theft - and they won't -
then "minor" items such as importing copies of
U.S. work won't even get a glance.
regards
Dannon Rhudy
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