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Liquid jade : the story of tea from east to west
Hohenegger, Beatrice
Adult Nonfiction 394.12 H
Hohenegger, Beatrice
Adult Nonfiction 394.12 H
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| Contents | Page |
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| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Part 1 - From East... | p. 1 |
| Behind the Veils of Legend and Myth | p. 3 |
| The Tao of Tea | p. 9 |
| Lu Yu, the Tea Sage | p. 12 |
| I Care Not a Jot for Immortal Life, but Only for the Taste of Tea | p. 18 |
| Gloved Virgins at Dawn | p. 22 |
| Tea Bricks, Ox Blood, Horses, and Cash | p. 27 |
| The Guessing Game | p. 31 |
| The Eyelids of Bodhidharma | p. 36 |
| Zen and the Tea Masters of Japan | p. 40 |
| Chanoyu | p. 49 |
| Part 2 - ...to West | p. 57 |
| Foreign Devils | p. 59 |
| The Impertinent Novelty of the Century | p. 68 |
| Garway's Slightly Skewed View on Tea and the Resulting Broadside | p. 73 |
| The Penny Universities | p. 77 |
| The Revenge of the Fair Sex | p. 82 |
| Smuggling and Smouch | p. 89 |
| Sugar, Anyone? | p. 98 |
| Gin Lane, Tea Lane | p. 103 |
| The Porcelain Secret | p. 110 |
| The Willow and the Lovers | p. 116 |
| A Large Cup of Tea for the Fishes | p. 120 |
| The Opium Factor | p. 128 |
| China Pried Open | p. 137 |
| The Tea Spy Who Came from the West | p. 145 |
| The Wilds of Assam | p. 153 |
| Tea Tom and Mr. Taylor | p. 161 |
| Tea Clippers: A Race to the End | p. 169 |
| Part 3 - Curiosities, Obscurities, Misnomers, and Facts | p. 177 |
| Tea and Tay, Ch'a and Chai | p. 179 |
| The Enigma of the Camellia | p. 182 |
| I Say High Tea, You Say Low Tea | p. 188 |
| Milk in First? | p. 191 |
| The Accidental Inventors Part 1 - The Tea Bag | p. 195 |
| The Accidental Inventors Part 2 - Iced Tea | p. 198 |
| What Color Is Your Tea? | p. 200 |
| The Mystery of Acronyms | p. 205 |
| The Tea Taster | p. 210 |
| Like Water for Tea | p. 218 |
| Tea Buzz | p. 226 |
| The 22,000 Virtues of Tea | p. 230 |
| Part 4 - Tea Today: The People and the Earth | p. 237 |
| Two Leaves and a Bud | p. 239 |
| A Fair Cup | p. 248 |
| Where the Birds Sing | p. 254 |
| Singpho Tea | p. 262 |
| Epilogue | p. 271 |
| Tea Meditation with Friends | p. 273 |
| Appendix A - Chinese Dynasties and Japanese Chronological Periods | p. 277 |
| Appendix B - Chinese Romanization-Wade-Giles to Pinyin Table | p. 278 |
| Notes | p. 283 |
| Bibliography | p. 303 |
| Index | p. 313 |
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