Tea: East and West - Rupert Faulkner
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What is it about tea that makes it so popular all over the world? Tea-drinking runs like a vein through the cultures of East and West, the focus of pleasure and leisure, and the inspiration for a variety of customs and ceremonies of its own. Tea has indeed influenced the course of history, shaping trade routes and contributing to the causes of the Opium Wars, which saw China reduced from a great imperial power to a shadow of its former self. In the West we owe the vogue for chinoiserie and 'japanning', the development of porcelain, and the design of clippers like the Cutty Sark indirectly to the craze for tea. There are as many different ways of growing and preparing tea as there are ways of serving and enjoying it, and this book explores them all, from the time-honoured intricacies of the Japanese tea ceremony to the advent of the teabag and instant tea. The tea-party was as much a staple of social life in ancient China as in nineteenth-century drawing-rooms of Europe, and bricks of tea transported perilously by yak caravan were as central to life in the Tibetan monastery as the gently simmering samovar was to the life of imperial Russia. This evocatively illustrated book tells the story of tea around the world, and celebrates its contribution, past and present, to civilized existence. źródło opisu: Okładka źródło okładki: Zdjęcie autorskie
| język | angielski | ||
| liczba stron | 128 | ||
| data wydania | 2009 (data przybliżona) | ||
| kategoria | Literatura popularnonaukowa |
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