The true history of tea
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London :
Thames & Hudson,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Tea, leaf of awareness
- A botanical excursion : the rivals of tea
- The heartstrings of national pride : Southeast Asia and the origins of tea
- A slave of Yoghurt : Tea in the 1st to 6th centuries
- Go have some tea! : the Tang dynasty
- Cloudy feet in a hare's fur cup : the Song dynasty
- Buying peace with the celestial beverage : the tea and horse trade
- The taste of zen is tea : Japan in the 12th to 15th centuries
- Sen Rikyū, the tea master : the perfection of the Japanese tea ceremony
- Han Xin counts the soldiers : tea in the Ming and Qing
- How the Dalai Lama got his name : brick tea in Tibet and Mongolia
- We invented the samovar! : the Russian caravan tea trade
- Conquering new lands : the Islamic world of tea
- Approved by physicians : the advent of tea in Europe
- The progress of this famous plant : tea and the opium wars
- A master teapot maker's midnight ride : tea in America
- Finest tippy golden flowery orange pekoe : India and Ceylon in the 19th century
- The heyday of the clipper ships : British tea
- Vignettes from the global village : tea in our time
- Appendix A: The autobiography of instructor Lu
- Appendix B: A debate between tea and beer
- Appendix C: A genealogy of words for tea.
