Recent Advances in the Scientific Research on Ancient Glass and Glaze. Edited by Qinghui Li and Julian Henderson. World Scientific, 2016. Pp. 572. ISBN 978-981-4630-28-3. Price GBP 43.00 (softcover)

The volume on Recent advances in the scientific research on ancient glass and glaze collects the papers presented at the second International Workshop on Archaeology of Glass, held in Shanghai on 12–14 November 2012, supplemented by a few additional papers especially prepared for the volume. It is a welcome addition to a series of books mainly focused on ancient Asian glass research, which were published as proceedings of the previous International Workshops/Symposia on Glass held in Beijing (1984) and Urumqi/Shanghai (2004/2005). The two existing volumes (Brill &Martin, 1991; Gan et al., 2009) indeed served brilliantly as primary references for the scientific investigation of Asian glass materials. The material and the data presented in this newly published book are also bound to be important for scholars and researchers in the field. Virtually everybody interested in ancient Asian glass will benefit from the updated archaeological and archaeometric information.