Chinese Tea

Author : Jialin Luo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Tea
ISBN : WISC:89124555533

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The China Tea Book by Jialin Luo Pdf

Author : Roy Fong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734189304

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The Great Teas of China by Roy Fong Pdf

The Second Edition of master tea merchant Roy Fong's classic The Great Teas of China has been thoroughly revised, rewritten, and re-edited, with significant new material added, particularly around water, teaware, and the brewing process. Fong also included more memories, anecdotes, and photographs from over 30 years of travel and learning in China's tea regions. From hand-picked white teas from Fu Ding and expertly crafted oolongs from Taiwan, to patiently aged puerh from Yunnan and everything in between, Fong offers his insights on choosing, brewing, and enjoying more than a dozen iconic Chinese tea varieties. Since 1993, Fong's Imperial Tea Court in San Francisco has been educating and inspiring tea enthusiasts, who visit from all over the world to enjoy America's finest selection of Chinese tea. The Great Teas of China is a very personal and accessible introduction to contemporary connoisseurship of Camellia sinensis, the flowering perennial at the heart of Chinese culture for thousands of years.

Author : John Blofeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000292817

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The Chinese Art of Tea by John Blofeld Pdf

First published in 1985, The Chinese Art of Tea is an exploration into the history of tea and the Chinese art of tea, known as ch’a-shu. The book begins by delving into the history and legends surrounding tea before moving on to a study of the Emperor Hui Tsung’s treatise on tea and approaches to tea during the Ming Dynasty. It discusses tea gardens, teahouses, the relationship between tea and ceramics, and the connection between tea and health. The book also features a detailed manual for practising the art of drinking tea, including advice for choosing tea, buying tea, different types of infusion and drinking vessels, and the attitude required for obtaining the fullest satisfaction from tea. The Chinese Art of Tea is ideal for anyone with an interest in the history and art of drinking tea, and the social and cultural history of China.

Author : George L. van Driem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004444726

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The Tale of Tea by George L. van Driem Pdf

The Tale of Teais 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, such tea is a recent invention. No tea plantations existed in the world's largest black tea producing countries, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka, when the Dutch and the English went to war about tea in the 17th century. This book replaces popular myths about tea with recondite knowledge on the hidden origins and detailed history of today's globalised beverage in its many modern guises.

Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Bret Hinsch
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Tea
ISBN : 9789744801296

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The Ultimate Guide to Chinese Tea by Bret Hinsch Pdf

Author : Ling Yun
Publisher : Shanghai Book Traders
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cooking
ISBN : PSU:000067179763

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Tao of Chinese Tea by Ling Yun Pdf

Learn about the history of Chinese tea, which dates back over 5,000 years and involves emperors, wars, and unsung heroes. Take a closer look at the philosophies and wisdom behind tea that have been passed down from one generation to another. Follow the delicately crafted art of the tea ceremony and the etiquette of drinking tea at a traditional tea house. Learn how to prepare Chinese tea by a top-rated Chinese tea master.

Author : Asiapac Editorial
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789812299918

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Origins of Chinese Tea and Wine (2010 Edition - EPUB) by Asiapac Editorial Pdf

Tea and wine have a long history in China. In fact, both have become firmly entrenched in the culture and customs of the Chinese people, featuring prominently in the traditional rites of ancestral worship and in social situations. Discover the origins and varieties of tea and wine, and learn about: * Famous Chinese teas and wines * The etiquette and methods for preparing and serving tea and wine * The health-giving properties of tea and wine * Unique customs practised among the minority peoples in China * Interesting facts and ancient stories relating to tea and wine Not only will this book entertain and inspire, it will enrich your understanding of the Chinese culture!

Author : Kit Boey Chow,Ione Kramer
Publisher : China Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0835121941

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All the Tea in China by Kit Boey Chow,Ione Kramer Pdf

Tea lovers will want to curl up - a pot of their favorite variety at hand - and linger over every informative page of this comprehensive account of tea's history and qualities. Chow and Kramer focus on Chinese teas and tea practices; their wonderfully detailed discussions leave no stone unturned in bringing to light all facets of tea as a plant, drink and institution. Two particularly interesting chapters center on tea's health benefits (which seem to be wide ranging and consequential) and how to make a good cup of tea (no easy task, to which any tea drinker can attest).

Author : Sarah Rose
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101190012

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For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose Pdf

A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China—territory forbidden to foreigners—to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea horticulture and manufacturing. For All the Tea in China is the remarkable account of Fortune's journeys into China—a thrilling narrative that combines history, geography, botany, natural science, and old-fashioned adventure. Disguised in Mandarin robes, Fortune ventured deep into the country, confronting pirates, hostile climate, and his own untrustworthy men as he made his way to the epicenter of tea production, the remote Wu Yi Shan hills. One of the most daring acts of corporate espionage in history, Fortune's pursuit of China's ancient secret makes for a classic nineteenth-century adventure tale, one in which the fate of empires hinges on the feats of one extraordinary man.

Author : Andrew B. Liu
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300252330

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Tea War by Andrew B. Liu Pdf

A history of capitalism in nineteenth‑ and twentieth‑century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries “Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also intervenes in larger debates about the nature of capitalism, global modernity, and global history.”— Alexander F. Day, Occidental College Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.

Author : James A. Benn
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888208739

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Tea in China by James A. Benn Pdf

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, ritual, science, health, and knowledge that tea brought with it. The shift in drinking habits that occurred in late medieval China cannot be understood without an appreciation of the fact that Buddhist monks were responsible for not only changing people's attitudes toward the intoxicating substance, but also the proliferation of tea drinking. Monks had enjoyed a long association with tea in South China, but it was not until Lu Yu's compilation of the Chajing (The Classic of Tea) and the spread of tea drinking by itinerant Chan monastics that tea culture became popular throughout the empire and beyond. Tea was important for maintaining long periods of meditation; it also provided inspiration for poets and profoundly affected the ways in which ideas were exchanged. Prior to the eighth century, the aristocratic drinking party had excluded monks from participating in elite culture. Over cups of tea, however, monks and literati could meet on equal footing and share in the same aesthetic values. Monks and scholars thus found common ground in the popular stimulant—one with few side effects that was easily obtainable and provided inspiration and energy for composing poetry and meditating. In addition, rituals associated with tea drinking were developed in Chan monasteries, aiding in the transformation of China's sacred landscape at the popular and elite level. Pilgrimages to monasteries that grew their own tea were essential in the spread of tea culture, and some monasteries owned vast tea plantations. By the end of the ninth century, tea was a vital component in the Chinese economy and in everyday life. Tea in China transcends the boundaries of religious studies and cultural history as it draws on a broad range of materials—poetry, histories, liturgical texts, monastic regulations—many translated or analyzed for the first time. The book will be of interest to scholars of East Asia and all those concerned with the religious dimensions of commodity culture in the premodern world.

Author : Jinghong Zhang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804873

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Puer Tea by Jinghong Zhang Pdf

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 tribute to the emperor in Beijing. In the 1990s, as the tea’s noble lineage and unique process of aging and fermentation were rediscovered, it achieved cult status both in China and internationally. The tea became a favorite among urban connoisseurs who analyzed it in language comparable to that used in wine appreciation and paid skyrocketing prices. In 2007, however, local events and the international economic crisis caused the Puer market to collapse. Puer Tea traces the rise, climax, and crash of this phenomenon. With ethnographic attention to the spaces in which Puer tea is harvested, processed, traded, and consumed, anthropologist Jinghong Zhang constructs a vivid account of the transformation of a cottage handicraft into a major industry—with predictable risks and unexpected consequences. Watch the associated videos at https://archive.org/details/PUERTEADVD1.

Author : Ling Wang
Publisher : Pelanduk Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : China
ISBN : 9679787788

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Chinese Tea Culture by Ling Wang Pdf

Tea is indispensable in Chinese life, not simply a drink, but a respository of culture, representing the philosophy, aesthetic views, and way of life of the Chinese people. This book presents the richness of Chinese tea and tea culture, covering the origin of tea and its history, methods and customs of drinking tea, and tea-drinking-vessels. It explains the Chinese tea ceremony in depth and introduces teahouse culture, legends about tea, and the literature and art closely connected with tea.

Author : Tong Liu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521186803

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Chinese Tea by Tong Liu Pdf

An illustrated introduction to the ancient culture of tea in China and its popularisation around the world.

Author : Ling Wang
Publisher : LONG RIVER PRESS
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 1592650252

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Tea and Chinese Culture by Ling Wang Pdf

Full-color introduction to all facets of tea culture in China, from early history to date.