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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Beatrice Hohenegger |
| ISBN: | 9780312333287 0312333285 |
| OCLC Number: | 69734499 |
| Description: | xiii, 320 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- Part 1: From East ... -- Behind the Veils of Legend and Myth -- The Tao of Tea -- Lu Yu, the Tea Sage -- I Care Not a Jot for Immortal Life, but Only for the Taste of Tea -- Gloved Virgins at Dawn -- Tea Bricks, Ox Blood, Horses, and Cash -- The Guessing Game -- The Eyelids of Bodhidharma -- Zen and the Tea Masters of Japan -- Cha no Yu -- Part 2: ... to West -- Foreign Devils -- The Impertinent Novelty of the Century -- Garway's Slightly Skewed View on Tea and the Resulting Broadside -- The Penny Universities -- The Revenge of the Fair Sex -- Smuggling and Smouch -- Sugar, Anyone? -- Gin Lane, Tea Lane -- The Porcelain Secret -- The Willow and the Lovers -- A Large Cup of Tea for the Fishes -- The Opium Factor -- China Pried Open -- The Tea Spy Who Came from the West -- The Wilds of Assam -- Tea Tom and Mr. Taylor -- Tea Clippers: A Race to the End -- Part 3: Curiosities, Obscurities, Misnomers, and Facts -- Tea and Tay, Ch'a and Chai -- Enigma of the Camellia. I Say High Tea, You Say Low Tea -- Milk in First? -- The Accidental Inventors 1: The Tea Bag -- The Accidental Inventors 2: Iced Tea -- George Orwell's Cup of Tea -- What Color is Your Tea? -- The Mystery of Acronyms -- The Tea Taster -- Like Water for Tea -- Tea Buzz -- The 22,000 Virtues of Tea -- Part 4: Tea Today: The People and the Earth -- Two Leaves and a Bud -- A Fair Cup -- Where the Birds Sing -- Singpho Tea -- Epilogue -- Tea Meditation with Friends -- Chinese Dynasties and Japanese Chronological Periods -- Chinese Romanization: Wade Giles to Pinyin Table -- Back Notes -- Bibliographic Sources -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Beatrice Hohenegger. |
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Abstract:
"Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene--in medicine, politics, the arts, culture, and religion. Behind this most serene of beverages, idolized by poets and revered in spiritual practices, lie stories of treachery, violence, smuggling, drug trade, international espionage, slavery, and revolution. This book explores tea in all its social and cultural aspects. Entertaining yet informative and extensively researched, connecting past and present and spanning five thousand years, this multilayered account of tea will enhance the experience of a steaming "cuppa" for tea lovers the world over.--From publisher description."--Source other than the Library of Congress.
Includes information on tea advertisements, North America, Assam tea, black tea, caffeine, Chʼ-ching (The Classic of Tea), China, Darjeeling tea, Chinese dynasties, English East India Company, Great Britain, green tea, Holland, India, Japan, medicinal/health uses, opium, organic agriculture, porcelain, Portugal, tea preparation, tea production, smuggling, Taoism, tea taxation, tea ceremonies, tea masters, tea tasting, tea trade, water, women, Zen Buddhism, etc.
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