Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. — xiv; 288 p. — ISBN: 9780824839642. Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity and popular beverage. The work traces the development of tea drinking from its mythical origins to the nineteenth century and examines the changes in...
University of Hawai‘i Press, USA, 2015. — 306 p. — ISBN: 0824839641. Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity and popular beverage. The work traces the development of tea drinking from its mythical origins to the nineteenth century and examines the changes in aesthetics,...
Duke University Press, 2001. — 435 p. — ISBN: 0822326744. In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements-picturesque women in mist-shrouded...
Brill, 2019. — 904 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-39360-8. The Tale of Tea is the saga of globalisation. Tea gave birth to paper money, the Opium Wars and Hong Kong, triggered the Anglo-Dutch wars and the American war of independence, shaped the economies and military history of Táng and Sòng China and moulded Chinese art and culture. Whilst black tea dominates the global market today,...
Reaktion Books, 2015. — 326 p. Although tea had been known and consumed in China and Japan for centuries, it was only in the seventeenth century that Londoners first began drinking it. Over the next two hundred years, its stimulating properties seduced all of British society, as tea found its way into cottages and castles alike. One of the first truly global commodities and now...
Greenwood Press, 1992. — 179 p. Tea is one of the world's most popular beverages, and the birthplace of tea in China. Until the 1830s, China was the only producer of tea, and today it remains the world's greatest producer and consumer. Tea in China is a history of China's national drink, where it came from, how it was drunk, and the place it has occupied in Chinese society from...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 248 p. A Dark History of Tea looks at our long relationship with this most revered of hot beverages. Renowned food historian Seren Charrington-Hollins digs into the history of one of the world’s oldest beverages, tracing tea's significance on the tables of the high and mighty as well as providing relief for workers who had to contend with the...
Tuttle Publishing, 2018. — 153 p. Transcending the narrow confines of its title, presents a unified concept of life, art and nature. Along the way exploring topics related to tea appreciation, including Zen, flower arranging and Taoism. An early cultural activist, Okakura's mission was to preserve Japanese art and aesthetic practices from an extinction that seemed imminent."...
Tuttle Publishing, 2011. — 161 p. Peltier brings an extraordinary constellation of experiences to bear upon the venerable texts represented in this book. He knows a great deal about the historical development of tea culture — its growing, its processing, its varieties, its storage, its consumption, and its cultural valences in different times and places — and he knows what...
Hutchinson, 2009. Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory forbidden to foreigners - to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea. For centuries, China had been the world's sole tea manufacturer. Britain purchased this fuel for...
London: Reaktion books, 2010. — 184 p. From chai to oolong to sencha, tea is one of the world’s most popular beverages. Perhaps that is because it is a unique and adaptable drink, consumed in many different varieties by cultures across the globe and in many different settings, from the intricate traditions of Japanese teahouses to the elegant tearooms of Britain to the verandas...
Tuttle Publishing, 2002. — 792 p. — ISBN: 978-0-804832-72-2. Chado The Way of Tea: A Japanese Tea Master's Almanac is a translation of the Japanese classic Sado-saijiki, first published in 1960. Covering tea-related events in Japan throughout the year, Sasaki provides vignettes of festivals and formal occasions, and as well as the traditional contemplative poetry that is a part...
Tuttle Publishing, 2004. — 64 p. — (Asian Arts And Crafts For Creative Kids). — ISBN: 978-0804835008. Tea Ceremony: Explore the unique Japanese tradition of sharing tea is an exciting and fun way to introduce Asian culture to kids. Readers will learn all the steps for performing a traditional Japanese tea ceremony. With this book kids will be able to: Perform the traditional...
Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 2014 — 249 p. — (A China Program). — ISBN: 978-0295804873. Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the "Six Great Tea Mountains" of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as a tribute to the emperor in Beijing. In...
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