JINGDEZHEN DISHES UP UNFORGETTABLE MEMORIES

Experiential and cultural tourism offerings are tempting greater numbers of visitors to China's porcelain capital

For centuries, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province has provided some of the world's finest porcelain. Today, it is drawing the world back to its kilns.

Adhamjonov Ayubkhon, a 20-year-old from Uzbekistan, arrived expecting a museum. What he found was living, breathing history and craftsmanship, baked into the rhythm of everyday life — not locked behind glass, but resting on dining tables, glinting in shop windows, lining old stone streets and spinning in the hands of young potters, shaping clay into everyday art.

"The city was amazing. Porcelain is everywhere," he said.