The True History of Tea
Victor H. Mair, Erling Hoh, "The True History of Tea"
ISBN: 0500251460 | 2009 | EPUB | 280 pages | 12 MB
A lively and beautifully illustrated history of one of the world's favorite beverages and its uses through the ages.
World-renowned sinologist Victor H. Mair teams up with journalist Erling Hoh to tell the story of this remarkable beverage and its uses, from ancient times to the present, from East to West.
For the first time in a popular history of tea, the Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, and Mongolian annals have been thoroughly consulted and carefully sifted. The resulting narrative takes the reader from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the splendor of the Tang and Song Dynasties, from the tea ceremony