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University of Washington Press Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic (Culture, Place, and Nature)

Name: Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic (Culture, Place, and Nature)
Brand: University of Washington Press
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Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the “Six Great Tea Mountains” of Yunnan Province, and 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. In the 1990s, as the tea’s noble lineage and unique process of aging and fermentation were rediscovered, it achieved cult status both in China and internationally. The tea became a favorite among urban connoisseurs who analyzed it in language comparable to that used in wine appreciation and paid skyrocketing prices. In 2007, however, local events and the international economic crisis caused the Puer market to collapse. Puer Tea traces the rise, climax, and crash of this phenomenon. With ethnographic attention to the spaces in which Puer tea is harvested, processed, traded, and consumed, anthropologist Jinghong Zhang constructs a vivid account of the transformation of a cottage handicraft into a major industry―with predictable risks and unexpected consequences. Watch the associated videos at https://archive.org/details/PUERTEADVD1.

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Brand: University of Washington Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0295993227
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Business & Economic History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 December 2013
Listed Since: 09 April 2013

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