The True History of TeaThames & Hudson, 24/03/2009 - 280 من الصفحات A lively and beautifully illustrated history of one of the world's favorite beverages and its uses through the ages. World-renowned sinologist Victor H. Mair teams up with journalist Erling Hoh to tell the story of this remarkable beverage and its uses, from ancient times to the present, from East to West.For the first time in a popular history of tea, the Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, and Mongolian annals have been thoroughly consulted and carefully sifted. The resulting narrative takes the reader from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the splendor of the Tang and Song Dynasties, from the tea ceremony politics of medieval Japan to the fabled tea and horse trade of Central Asia and the arrival of the first European vessels in Far Eastern waters. Through the centuries, tea has inspired artists, enhanced religious experience, played a pivotal role in the emergence of world trade, and triggered cataclysmic events that altered the course of humankind. How did green tea become the national beverage of Morocco? And who was the beautiful Emma Hart, immortalized by George Romney in his painting The Tea-maker of Edgware Road? No other drink has touched the daily lives of so many people in so many different ways. The True History of Tea brings these disparate aspects together in an entertaining tale that combines solid scholarship with an eye for the quirky, offbeat paths that tea has strayed upon during its long voyage. It celebrates the common heritage of a beverage we have all come to love, and plays a crucial part in the work of dismantling that obsolete dictum: East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. |
المحتوى
CLOUDY FEET IN A HARES FUR | |
BUYING PEACE WITH THE CELESTIAL BEVERAGE | |
SEN RIKYŪ THE TEA MASTER | |
HAN XIN COUNTS THE SOLDIERS | |
HOW THE DALAI LAMA GOT HIS NAME | |
THE PROGRESS OF THIS FAMOUS PLANT | |
A MASTER TEAPOT MAKERS MIDNIGHT RIDE | |
THE HEYDAY OF THE CLIPPER SHIPS | |
VIGNETTES FROM THE GLOBAL VILLAGE | |
APPENDIX | |
Acknowledgments | |
CONQUERING NEW LANDS | |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
19th century Asia Assam Assam Tea bamboo became beer Beijing beverage bitter black tea boiling Britain British Buddhist Camellia Canton capital catties Ceylon chai chanoyu China clippers coffee Company’s country’s cultivation drink tea Dutch dynasty East India Company emperor English famous fermented Fujian gardens green tea guests Hideyoshi infusion Japan Japanese tea Japanese tea ceremony Jurchens Kūkai Kyakhta languages later lb of tea leaf Lu Yu merchants milk million lb Ming Mongol Mongolia monks mountains nomads northern Oolong tea opium Pekoe Persian porcelain presentday produced province purchased rice Rikyū river Russian Saichō samovar seeds sencha ships Sichuan silver Sinitic Song Song dynasty southern sugar Tang taste tea and horse tea bowl tea bushes tea ceremony tea houses tea leaves tea master tea plant tea trade tea utensils teadrinking teamakers teapot Temple Tibet Tibetan Wang word for tea wrote Yangtze yellow Zong