A Belt and Road–themed literary seminar and the launch ceremony for The Porcelain Maker's Daughter took place on Dec 7 in Shanghai. Translated from the Chinese edition published by Shanghai People's Publishing House in 2023, the novel, originally titled The Tek Sing, is a work of historical fiction that tells a poignant love story set in a real shipwreck in 1822 during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911).