Katharine Burnett at the Kui Ge Lecture Series

Professor Katharine Burnett participated in the Kui Ge Lecture Series at Yunnan University in Kunming, China, presenting “Art History without the Art: The Curious Case of Sino-Vietnamese Teapots Before 1700.” Her talk discussed the exchange of tea culture and teapots between China and Vietnam between 1300-1700, with an emphasis on the late Ming period. This is the time when steeped tea became the norm and teapots began to be a required form. Katharine explored China’s cultural tea exchanges with its Southeast Asian neighbors, starting with Vietnam and how Vietnam responded to this trade through its own ceramic industry.