This period was when Chinese ceramic production techniques appear to have been introduced to the Khmer Empire. However, existing scholarship does not explain the historical processes behind this introduction. Angkor was the capital of the Khmer Empire in mainland Southeast Asia during A.D. 802-1431. The Khmer Empire covered modern Cambodia, Northeast Thailand, Southern Vietnam, Laos and Tenasserim of Myanmar. This research will conduct systematic and integrated analyses on the technological, social and geopolitical aspects of Khmer ceramic production and its interactive relationship with China. It will no longer be mainly concerned with China’s impact on the outside world but will use Khmer ceramic studies to scrutinize China as a “foreign source” and bring out new details about the social life of the local inhabitants and how it changed over time. It will provide a new placing of Angkor into the interregional trading networks of medieval Asia in world archaeological context.