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Puer Tea – Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic: Culture, Place, and Nature

Autor Jinghong Zhang, K. Sivaramakrishna
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 noi 2013
Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the "Six Great Tea Mountains" of Yunnan Province. In imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor in Beijing. In the 1990s, as the tea's noble lineage and unique process of aging and fermentation were rediscovered, it achieved cult status both in China and internationally. The tea became a favorite among urban connoisseurs who analyzed it in language comparable to that used in wine appreciation and paid skyrocketing prices for it. In 2007, however, local events and the international economic crisis caused the Puer market to collapse. Puer Tea traces the rise, climax, and crash of this cultural phenomenon. With ethnographic attention to the spaces in which Puer tea is harvested, processed, traded, and consumed, anthropologist Jinghong Zhang constructs a vivid account of the transformation of a cottage handicraft into a major industry--with predictable risks and unexpected consequences. Jinghong Zhang is a lecturer at Yunnan University.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295993225
ISBN-10: 0295993227
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 47 illustrations, 5 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press
Seria Culture, Place, and Nature


Recenzii

"This is an engrossing study of the Puer tea industry and the many cultural spheres that surround it. It will be of keen interest to the Western tea trade as well as historians, connoisseurs, and enthusiasts. Tea publications rarely, if ever, discuss the complex relationships that quite literally bring tea to the table. Never has the anatomy of tea been dissected in such a wide ranging, thorough, and engaging way."--Steven D. Owyoung, co-translator of Korean Tea Classics
"This is an engrossing study of the Puer tea industry and the many cultural spheres that surround it. It will be of keen interest to the Western tea trade as well as historians, connoisseurs, and enthusiasts. Tea publications rarely, if ever, discuss the complex relationships that quite literally bring tea to the table. Never has the anatomy of tea been dissected in such a wide ranging, thorough, and engaging way."--Steven D. Owyoung, co-translator of Korean Tea Classics

Notă biografică


Cuprins

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Transliteration, Names, and Measures
Maps

Introduction

Spring
1. ¿The Authentic Tea Mountain Yiwü
2. Tensions under the Bloom

Summer
3. ¿Yunnan: The Home of Puer Tea¿ 81
4. Heating Up and Cooling Down 106

Autumn
5. Puer Tea with Remorse
6. Transformed Qualities

Winter
7. Tea Tasting and Counter¿Tea Tasting
8. Interactive Authenticities

Conclusion: An Alternative Authenticity

Appendix 1: Puer Tea Categories and Production Process
Appendix 2: Supplementary Videos


Notes
Glossary
References
Index