Porcelain? Not a Chinaman's Chance! unfired porcelain, three days worth of sweat, deminsions vary

Porcelain
Due to the abundant raw materials available and the early-on knowledge of high firing, Chinese were the first to developed porcelain. For the longest time, Europeans admired the beauty and strength of this material and tried in vain to reproduce it. It was so highly regarded that during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in English, the word "China" became synonymous with the material.

China Man
The term came to rise during the flood of male Chinese immigrants arriving in the states in hopes of supporting their families in China by working as cheap railroad workers. Census records in 1800s recorded these immigrants bynames such as "John Chinaman", "Jake Chinaman", or simply as "Chinaman". A term that historically has been used in legal documents, literary works, and speech, “Chinaman” nowadays is considered offensive.