Prepare without finishing and study in China (7)
I believe the answer is:
dresden
'china' is the definition.
(a type of porcelain)
'prepare without finishing and study in' is the wordplay.
'prepare' becomes 'dress' (dressing is a kind of preparing).
'without finishing' means to remove the last letter.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'study in' becomes 'den' (term for a study or office. I am not sure about the 'in' bit.).
'dress' with its final letter taken off is 'dres'.
'dres'+'den'='DRESDEN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dresden that I've seen before include "'German city, almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945 (7)'" , "Industrial city" , "Saxony capital" , "Famous china made at Meissen" , "Germany city - reddens (anag)" .)