Liquid Jade - Hohenegger, Beatrice
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Spanning a 5,000-year history, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene--in medicine, politics, culture, and religion. Now, this lively book explores the stories behind this most serene of beverages, of treachery, violence, smuggling, drug trade, international espionage, slavery, and revolution. Illustrations.

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Spanning a 5,000-year history, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene--in medicine, politics, culture, and religion. Now, this lively book explores the stories behind this most serene of beverages, of treachery, violence, smuggling, drug trade, international espionage, slavery, and revolution. Illustrations.
Autorenporträt
Beatrice Hohenegger is guest curator of a traveling museum exhibition on the history and culture of tea, slated to open in 2009 at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History in Los Angeles. She is fluent in English, French, Italian, and German, and holds a M.A. from the department of history and philosophy at La Sapienza University of Rome. She lives with her family in Los Angeles.