Jinghong Zhang

Puer Tea

Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic
Herausgeber: Sivaramakrishnan, K.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Culture, Place, and Nature
• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 179mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780295993232
• ISBN-10: 0295993235
• Artikelnr.: 37745683

Autorenporträt

Jinghong Zhang is a lecturer at Yunnan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Transliteration, Names, and Measures
Maps
Introduction
Spring
1. "The Authentic Tea Mountain Yiwu"
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