Porcelain in England in 1748 in order to compete with imported porcelain, bone china is now made worldwide. The English had read the letters of Jesuit missionary Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles, which described Chinese porcelain manufacturing secrets in detail. One writer has speculated that a misunderstanding of the text could possibly have been responsible for the first attempts to use bone-ash as an ingredient of English porcelain, although this is not supported by researchers and historians. In China, kaolin was sometimes described as forming the 'bones' of the paste, while the 'flesh' was provided by the refined rocks suitable for the porcelain
Porcelain trade in Qing China invasions caused a temporary stalling in the creation for porcelain. Once the Qing dynasty sought to bring back porcelain in the trade they developed a more efficient way to transport the Porcelain goods. The Qing emperors like Kangxi helped to initiate a furthering of maritime trade which would help the growth of porcelain trade. By using the Yangtze River not only was porcelain materials cheaper to send but the final good could be transported to other regions that were not accessible. Kangxi furthered the trade for porcelain by allowing an organization of private maritime trade that allowed families who own