Li Tinghuai
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Male, of Han ethnicity, born in December 1952 in Ruzhou City, Henan Province. He is a national representative bearer of Ru Porcelain Firing Craftsmanship, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a Ru porcelain firing technician. He has a comprehensive command of the eighteen stages of Ru porcelain firing and can independently prepare a wide range of glazes, including sky blue, sky azure, egg-shell blue, moon white, bean green and matt glaze, and he is thoroughly versed in the iron-reduction firing process of the Ru kilns; his works display a distinctive regional character. In theoretical research he has published eight papers in Chinese ceramics journals, among them 'The Texture and Fish-Scale Pattern of Ru Official Kiln Wares', 'A Brief Discussion of the Glaze Colours of Ru Official Porcelain' and 'The Forms, Glazes and Appreciation of Ru Porcelain', and he has published the monograph New Perspectives on the Ru Kiln. In order to carry out dedicated research on and protection of the traditional Ru porcelain craft, he founded Henan Tinghuai Ru Porcelain Technology Co., Ltd. and a Ru porcelain research institute.
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