{"product_id":"the-tale-of-tea-a-comprehensive-history-of-tea-from-prehistoric-times-to-the-present-day-9789004444720","title":"The Tale of Tea: A Comprehensive History of Tea","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Tale of Tea traces the history of tea from the mists of its mountainous homeland to dynastic China, Japan, Korea, and the Indian Ocean under Portuguese, Dutch, and British imperialism. It highlights the globalizing dynamics, including the wars, hierarchies, economical systems, and political structures effectuated by mankind’s unquenchable thirst for the beverage. From an elaborate discussion on tea cultures worldwide (including those of Africa, South America, and the Pacific), the book moves to cuisines influenced by tea, the chemistry behind it, and, finally, the interrelated issues of modern-day tea cultivation and environmental sustainability. The Tale of Tea is mostly chronological, but occasionally hops between time periods when it is thematically justified.(...) The book equips beginners and experts alike with the knowledge to talk about tea confidently.(...) It is nothing short of a must-read for anyone genuinely interested in tea. Its value for tea enthusiasts outside the academic world, is almost self-evident. I have no doubt it will be warmly received by tea companies, museums, and online discussion groups.' - Tom Hoogervorst, KITLV\/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands, in: BKI,176: 2-3 (2020)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   1 The Primordial Origins of Tea  A Brief Ethnolinguistic Preamble  Varieties of Tea Tree and Some Close Relatives  The Original Tea Emerges from the Mists of Time  An Ancient Trans-Himalayan Root Denoting Tea  An Ancient Austroasiatic Root Denoting Tea  Fermented Eatable Tea Becomes Fermented Drinkable Tea  Old and New Tea Etyma in the Original Tea Homeland   2 Tea Spreads to China  Shrouded behind the Veil of Writing  The Chinese Characters tú 荼 and chá 茶  From the Hàn Dynasty to the Suí Dynasty  Tea Becomes Fashionable in the Táng  A Tea Sage Is Discovered under a Stone Bridge  The Tea Sage Becomes a Man  Lù Yǔ’s Tea Treatise and His Old Age  Tea and the Water with Which It Is Made  The Blossoming of Tea Culture and Porcelain  Tibet Takes to Tea in the Táng  Tea Is Taxed by the Táng  The Sòng under Siege  The Sophistication of the Sòng  Chinese Tea Culture Blossoms Anew in the Míng  A ilha formosa  The Manchu and the Colours of the Chinese Rainbow  Chinese Green Teas  White Teas and Albino Cultivars  Chinese Yellow Teas  Blue Teas, Swarthy Dragon and Rock Teas  Chinese Red Teas  Chinese Fermented or Dark Teas  Scented Teas, Herbal Infusions, Punch and Cocktails   3 Tea Arrives in Japan and Korea  Tea Comes to the Land of the Rising Sun  Tea Comes to Japan yet Again  Buddhist Monastery Tea Rituals  Tea Tasting Competitions and Bawdy Bazaars  Nōami Takes Tea from the Tea Pavilion into a Domestic Setting  An Oasis of Calm in a Troubled Time  Jōō Picks up Where Jukō Left Off  Sen no Rikyū  Tea Schools Arising through the Seven Disciples  Tea Schools through Family Descent  The Tea Ceremony Fossilises  The Manufacture of matcha and tencha  Japanese Parched Green Tea or kamairi cha  Sencha, shincha and bancha  Kabusecha, Gyokuro and the Flavour Umami  Miscellaneous Other Types of Japanese Tea  Japanese Tea Culture Travels Abroad  Japanese Tea Cultivars and Tea Production  Innovations and Nostalgic Retentions in Japanese Tea  A Non-Japanese Drink with a Japanese Name  Tea Reaches the Korean Peninsula  The Renaissance of Korean Tea   4 East Meets West: the Intrepid Portuguese  Getting into Hot Water  Tea by way of the Silk Route  Setting Sail for Cipangu  A Surprise Welcome  Silk and Silver Rather Than Tea  Uma chávena de chá  The Tea Ceremony, Oolong Tea and Saying Mass  More Reports of the Tea Ceremony  Ricci and Rodrigues  Jewels of the East   5 Dutch Capitalism and the Globalisation of Tea  A Dutchman in Goa and a Landlubber in Bordeaux  The Birth of Capitalism  Amor vincit omnia  The Japanese Word Is Replaced by the Hokkien Word  Tea Comes into Vogue in the Low Countries  A Dutch Doctor Prescribes Tea and a Portuguese Jesuit Admires Eastern Mores  A More Famous Dutch Physician Prescribes Tea and Tea at the Siamese Court  A Third Dutch Doctor Extols the Virtues of Tea  A Milanese Jesuit in Cochin China  A French Jesuit Binges on Tea in Tonkin  An Italian Jesuit from Hángzhōu and a French Priest from Siam  Taking Tea a Hundred Times a Day  A Dutch Preacher in Ceylon and the East Indies  Tea and the Travels of Tavernier  The Baroque Dutch Spelling of a Hokkien Word  A Persian Interlude   6 The English Take to Tea: Wars in Europe  Tea as a Plant Species  The English Take to Tea  Yet Another Influential Dutch Tea Doctor  The First Anglo-Dutch War  The Second Anglo-Dutch War  The Third Anglo-Dutch War  The Catherine Myth  France, French Tea and Tea with Milk  On Taking Sugar in One’s Tea  The New Tradition of English Afternoon Tea  Government Greed and the Changing English Taste for Tea  Early Types of Tea Imported to Europe  Tea to the Barbary Coast   7 Interlude: Coffee and Chocolate  Vicissitudes of Fortune and Fashion  The First Tidings of Coffee Reach Europe  The Coffee Homeland in the Kingdom of Caffa  Coffee Is Adopted in Arabia and Then in Turkey  Tidings of Coffee Are Sent to Italy  Antique Oral Tradition vs. Modern Myth  Islamic Apologetics on behalf of Coffee  The English First Take to Coffee and Then the Dutch  The Wine of the Sufis Becomes a Global Commodity  Coffee Comes to Vienna, Whilst Fashions Change in the West  Good to the Last Dropping  Europeans Discover the Drink of the Aztecs and the Mayans  Cacao Comes to Europe and Asia  Modern Cocoa and Chocolate Are Invented   8 Taxes vs. Freedom from Oppression  The Rise of Canton and the Downturn in the Dutch Tea Trade  English Ascendancy in the Tea Trade  Silver for Tea  Gender, Tea Gardens and Tea Dances  Tea and Taxes  Extraterritorial Taxation and the Boston Tea Party  Ideological Legacy of the Boston Tea Party  A Threepence on a Pound of Tea and International Law  Scrambling for the Exits as a Re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party  The Surveillance State and the Tea Party  The Illusion of Democratic Choice  Tea Looks for a New Home and Chaos Erupts in Europe   9 Tea transformed: Wars in Asia  Opium for Tea  The Treaty of Paris and the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War  The Napoleonic Threat Prompts Strategic Realignments in the East  More Reshuffling in the East  The Path to War  The First Opium War  Tea Plantations in the Dutch East Indies  Botanical Confusion  Tea Plantations in British India  Meanwhile in Sikkim, the Duars and Nepal  Opium Clippers and Tea  British Espionage in the Middle Kingdom  The Great Paradigm Shift in Global Tea Consumption  The Second Opium War and the Tàipíng Rebellion  The Opium Wars and India  Meanwhile in Russia  Orthodox Tea and the Invention of Brown Tea  Coffee Serendipitously Gives Way to Tea  Sir Thomas Lipton  Iced Tea, Tea Bags and Orwellian Tea  Germany and Denmark   10 Tea Terroir and Tea Cuisine  Terroir, Microbiome and Epigenetic Effects  Madagascar, the Mascarenes and the Seychelles  The Azores and Brazil  French Tea Cuisine and Other New Trends  Thailand and Laos  Tea Comes to the Malay Peninsula  Mozambique, Homeland of Yasuke  A Colony on the Cape Becomes South Africa  The Dutch East Indies Become Indonesia  From French Indochina to Vietnam  Georgia and the Russian Empire  Iran and the Persian Gulf  The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Azeri Tea  Turkey Converts from Coffee to Tea  Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia  From a Colony under Wilhelm ii to Tanzania  The East Africa Protectorate Becomes Kenya  From British Protectorate to Uganda  Cameroun, Nigeria, Rwanda and Burundi  Across the Continent of South America  Tea in South Carolina  Late Bloomers of the Pacific  From Kew Gardens to Cornwall  Swiss Tea in the Ticino  Tea in the Dragon Kingdom  Bohemia and Moravia Take to Tea  Dutch Tea in the Age of Vertical Farming   11 Tea Chemistry and Fanciful Concoctions  Tea Science or Tsiology  Caffeine  From Teaism to Theanine  Vitamin P  Catechins and Tannins  Theaflavins and Thearubigins  Tea and Cancer  Tea, Obesity and Diabetes  Tea, Cardiac Health, Allergies and Immunity  Tea and Cognition  Tea, the Kidneys and the Liver  Bottled Tea Drinks, Bubble Tea and Other New Trends  Factors Affecting Fragrance   12 Tending the Tea Garden  Sustainable Tea Cultivation  Assailants of the Tea Plant  Physical Tea Pest Control  In Pursuit of Environmentally Friendly Biological Warfare  Tea Tree Diseases and Some Therapies  Consumer Protection, Labyrinths of Red Tape and Global Dangers   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047055786327,"sku":"9789004444720","price":99.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-tale-of-tea-a-comprehensive-history-of-tea-from-prehistoric-times-to-the-present-day-9789004444720","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}