The Tale of Tea. A Comprehensive History of Tea from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day
The Tale of Tea is the saga of globalisation. Tea gave birth to paper money, the Opium Wars and Hong Kong, triggered the
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Table of contents :
Contents......Page nb0004.djvu
Preface......Page nb0009.djvu
Figures......Page nb0010.djvu
A Brief Ethnolinguistic Preamble......Page nb0019.djvu
Varieties of Tea Tree and Some Close Relatives......Page nb0031.djvu
The Original Tea Emerges from the Mists of Time......Page nb0037.djvu
An Ancient Trans-Himalayan Root Denoting Tea......Page nb0040.djvu
An Ancient Austroasiatic Root Denoting Tea......Page nb0043.djvu
Fermented Eatable Tea Becomes Fermented Drinkable Tea......Page nb0052.djvu
Old and New Tea Etyma in the Original Tea Homeland......Page nb0055.djvu
Shrouded behind the Veil of Writing......Page nb0057.djvu
The Chinese Characters tú 荼 and chá 茶......Page nb0061.djvu
From the Hàn Dynasty to the Suí Dynasty......Page nb0064.djvu
Tea Becomes Fashionable in the Táng......Page nb0071.djvu
A Tea Sage Is Discovered under a Stone Bridge......Page nb0072.djvu
The Tea Sage Becomes a Man......Page nb0074.djvu
Lù Yǔ’s Tea Treatise and His Old Age......Page nb0076.djvu
Tea and the Water with Which It Is Made......Page nb0079.djvu
The Blossoming of Tea Culture and Porcelain......Page nb0081.djvu
Tibet Takes to Tea in the Táng......Page nb0092.djvu
Tea Is Taxed by the Táng......Page nb0096.djvu
The Sòng under Siege......Page nb0097.djvu
The Sophistication of the Sòng......Page nb0102.djvu
Chinese Tea Culture Blossoms Anew in the Míng......Page nb0113.djvu
A ilha formosa......Page nb0119.djvu
The Manchu and the Colours of the Chinese Rainbow......Page nb0129.djvu
Chinese Green Teas......Page nb0137.djvu
White Teas and Albino Cultivars......Page nb0143.djvu
Chinese Yellow Teas......Page nb0146.djvu
Blue Teas, Swarthy Dragon and Rock Teas......Page nb0147.djvu
Chinese Red Teas......Page nb0151.djvu
Chinese Fermented or Dark Teas......Page nb0156.djvu
Scented Teas, Herbal Infusions, Punch and Cocktails......Page nb0165.djvu
Tea Comes to the Land of the Rising Sun......Page nb0172.djvu
Tea Comes to Japan yet Again......Page nb0174.djvu
Buddhist Monastery Tea Rituals......Page nb0184.djvu
Tea Tasting Competitions and Bawdy Bazaars......Page nb0186.djvu
Nōami Takes Tea from the Tea Pavilion into a Domestic Setting......Page nb0188.djvu
An Oasis of Calm in a Troubled Time......Page nb0191.djvu
Jōō Picks up Where Jukō Left Off......Page nb0196.djvu
Sen no Rikyū......Page nb0198.djvu
Tea Schools Arising through the Seven Disciples......Page nb0204.djvu
Tea Schools through Family Descent......Page nb0208.djvu
The Tea Ceremony Fossilises......Page nb0213.djvu
The Manufacture of matcha and tencha......Page nb0215.djvu
Japanese Parched Green Tea or kamairi cha......Page nb0218.djvu
Sencha, shincha and bancha......Page nb0223.djvu
Kabusecha, gyokuro and the Flavour umami......Page nb0230.djvu
Miscellaneous Other Types of Japanese Tea......Page nb0237.djvu
Japanese Tea Culture Travels Abroad......Page nb0239.djvu
Japanese Tea Cultivars and Tea Production......Page nb0241.djvu
Innovations and Nostalgic Retentions in Japanese Tea......Page nb0244.djvu
A Non-Japanese Drink with a Japanese Name......Page nb0247.djvu
Tea Reaches the Korean Peninsula......Page nb0248.djvu
The Renaissance of Korean Tea......Page nb0252.djvu
Getting into Hot Water......Page nb0256.djvu
Tea by way of the Silk Route......Page nb0263.djvu
Setting Sail for Cipangu......Page nb0267.djvu
A Surprise Welcome......Page nb0274.djvu
Silk and Silver Rather Than Tea......Page nb0277.djvu
Uma chávena de chá......Page nb0283.djvu
The Tea Ceremony, Oolong Tea and Saying Mass......Page nb0287.djvu
More Reports of the Tea Ceremony......Page nb0291.djvu
Ricci and Rodrigues......Page nb0297.djvu
Jewels of the East......Page nb0301.djvu
A Dutchman in Goa and a Landlubber in Bordeaux......Page nb0308.djvu
The Birth of Capitalism......Page nb0313.djvu
Amor vincit omnia......Page nb0317.djvu
The Japanese Word Is Replaced by the Hokkien Word......Page nb0325.djvu
Tea Comes into Vogue in the Low Countries......Page nb0330.djvu
A Dutch Doctor Prescribes Tea and a Portuguese Jesuit Admires Eastern Mores......Page nb0339.djvu
A More Famous Dutch Physician Prescribes Tea and Tea at the Siamese Court......Page nb0342.djvu
A Third Dutch Doctor Extols the Virtues of Tea......Page nb0350.djvu
A Milanese Jesuit in Cochin China......Page nb0352.djvu
A French Jesuit Binges on Tea in Tonkin......Page nb0353.djvu
An Italian Jesuit from Hángzhōu and a French Priest from Siam......Page nb0359.djvu
Taking Tea a Hundred Times a Day......Page nb0363.djvu
A Dutch Preacher in Ceylon and the East Indies......Page nb0366.djvu
Tea and the Travels of Tavernier......Page nb0369.djvu
The Baroque Dutch Spelling of a Hokkien Word......Page nb0373.djvu
A Persian Interlude......Page nb0378.djvu
Tea as a Plant Species......Page nb0386.djvu
The English Take to Tea......Page nb0403.djvu
Yet Another Influential Dutch Tea Doctor......Page nb0412.djvu
The First Anglo-Dutch War......Page nb0422.djvu
The Second Anglo-Dutch War......Page nb0430.djvu
The Third Anglo-Dutch War......Page nb0441.djvu
The Catherine Myth......Page nb0445.djvu
France, French Tea and Tea with Milk......Page nb0448.djvu
On Taking Sugar in One’s Tea......Page nb0450.djvu
The New Tradition of English Afternoon Tea......Page nb0455.djvu
Government Greed and the Changing English Taste for Tea......Page nb0463.djvu
Early Types of Tea Imported to Europe......Page nb0468.djvu
Tea to the Barbary Coast......Page nb0477.djvu
The First Tidings of Coffee Reach Europe......Page nb0482.djvu
The Coffee Homeland in the Kingdom of Caffa......Page nb0488.djvu
Coffee Is Adopted in Arabia and Then in Turkey......Page nb0491.djvu
Tidings of Coffee Are Sent to Italy......Page nb0496.djvu
Antique Oral Tradition vs. Modern Myth......Page nb0500.djvu
Islamic Apologetics on behalf of Coffee......Page nb0503.djvu
The English First Take to Coffee and Then the Dutch......Page nb0505.djvu
The Wine of the Sufis Becomes a Global Commodity......Page nb0510.djvu
Coffee Comes to Vienna, Whilst Fashions Change in the West......Page nb0514.djvu
Good to the Last Dropping......Page nb0517.djvu
Europeans Discover the Drink of the Aztecs and the Mayans......Page nb0520.djvu
Cacao Comes to Europe and Asia......Page nb0534.djvu
Modern Cacao and Chocolate Are Invented......Page nb0542.djvu
The Rise of Canton and the Downturn in the Dutch Tea Trade......Page nb0550.djvu
English Ascendancy in the Tea Trade......Page nb0557.djvu
Silver for Tea......Page nb0561.djvu
Gender, Tea Gardens and Tea Dances......Page nb0566.djvu
Tea and Taxes......Page nb0578.djvu
Extraterritorial Taxation and the Boston Tea Party......Page nb0581.djvu
Ideological Legacy of the Boston Tea Party......Page nb0590.djvu
A Threepence on a Pound of Tea and International Law......Page nb0598.djvu
Scrambling for the Exits as a Re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party......Page nb0602.djvu
The Surveillance State and the Tea Party......Page nb0606.djvu
The Illusion of Democratic Choice......Page nb0611.djvu
Tea Looks for a New Home and Chaos Erupts in Europe......Page nb0617.djvu
Opium for Tea......Page nb0621.djvu
The Treaty of Paris and the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War......Page nb0622.djvu
The Napoleonic Threat Prompts Strategic Realignments in the East......Page nb0625.djvu
More Reshuffling in the East......Page nb0630.djvu
The Path to War......Page nb0631.djvu
The First Opium War......Page nb0632.djvu
Tea Plantations in the Dutch East Indies......Page nb0636.djvu
Botanical Confusion......Page nb0640.djvu
Tea Plantations in British India......Page nb0643.djvu
Meanwhile in Sikkim, the Duars and Nepal......Page nb0649.djvu
Opium Clippers and Tea......Page nb0666.djvu
British Espionage in the Middle Kingdom......Page nb0668.djvu
The Great Paradigm Shift in Global Tea Consumption......Page nb0676.djvu
The Second Opium War and the Tàipíng Rebellion......Page nb0686.djvu
The Opium Wars and India......Page nb0688.djvu
Meanwhile in Russia......Page nb0691.djvu
Orthodox Tea and the Invention of Brown Tea......Page nb0696.djvu
Coffee Serendipitously Gives Way to Tea......Page nb0703.djvu
Sir Thomas Lipton......Page nb0708.djvu
Iced Tea, Tea Bags and Orwellian Tea......Page nb0710.djvu
Germany and Denmark......Page nb0716.djvu
Terroir, Microbiome and Epigenetic Effects......Page nb0719.djvu
Madagascar, the Mascarenes and the Seychelles......Page nb0721.djvu
The Azores and Brazil......Page nb0731.djvu
French Tea Cuisine and Other New Trends......Page nb0736.djvu
Thailand and Laos......Page nb0743.djvu
Tea Comes to the Malay Peninsula......Page nb0745.djvu
Mozambique, Homeland of Yasuke......Page nb0747.djvu
A Colony on the Cape Becomes South Africa......Page nb0748.djvu
The Dutch East Indies Become Indonesia......Page nb0749.djvu
From French Indochina to Vietnam......Page nb0751.djvu
Georgia and the Russian Empire......Page nb0753.djvu
Iran and the Persian Gulf......Page nb0758.djvu
The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Azeri Tea......Page nb0759.djvu
Turkey Converts from Coffee to Tea......Page nb0761.djvu
Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia......Page nb0763.djvu
From a Colony under Wilhelm ii to Tanzania......Page nb0764.djvu
The East Africa Protectorate Becomes Kenya......Page nb0765.djvu
Cameroun, Nigeria, Rwanda and Burundi......Page nb0767.djvu
Across the Continent of South America......Page nb0768.djvu
Tea in South Carolina......Page nb0769.djvu
Late Bloomers of the Pacific......Page nb0770.djvu
From Kew Gardens to Cornwall......Page nb0771.djvu
Swiss Tea in the Ticino......Page nb0772.djvu
Tea in the Dragon Kingdom......Page nb0773.djvu
Bohemia and Moravia Take to Tea......Page nb0775.djvu
Dutch Tea in the Age of Vertical Farming......Page nb0776.djvu
Caffeine......Page nb0778.djvu
From Teaism to Theanine......Page nb0783.djvu
Vitamin P......Page nb0786.djvu
Catechins and Tannins......Page nb0788.djvu
Theaflavins and Thearubigins......Page nb0794.djvu
Tea and Cancer......Page nb0797.djvu
Tea, Obesity and Diabetes......Page nb0811.djvu
Tea, Cardiac Health, Allergies and Immunity......Page nb0817.djvu
Tea and Cognition......Page nb0822.djvu
Tea, the Kidneys and the Liver......Page nb0825.djvu
Bottled Tea Drinks, Bubble Tea and Other New Trends......Page nb0828.djvu
Factors Affecting Fragrance......Page nb0843.djvu
Sustainable Tea Cultivation......Page nb0853.djvu
Assailants of the Tea Plant......Page nb0857.djvu
Physical Tea Pest Control......Page nb0860.djvu
In Pursuit of Environmentally Friendly Biological Warfare......Page nb0861.djvu
Tea Tree Diseases and Some Therapies......Page nb0867.djvu
Consumer Protection, Labyrinths of Red Tape and Global Dangers......Page nb0870.djvu
Index......Page nb0883.djvu
