True History of Tea

Name: True History of Tea
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ISBN: 9780500251461

ISBN-10: 0500251460

ISBN-13: 9780500251461

Edition: 2008

Authors: Victor H. Mair, Erling Hoh

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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 politics of medieval Japan to the fabled tea and horse trade of Central Asia and the…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 3/24/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.40" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.606

Erling Hoh has been a correspondent for Archaeology and written on Chinese history and culture for Natural History and others.