The True History of Tea.

Intro -- Title Page -- About the Authors -- Other books of interest -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue:  Tea: Leaf of Awareness -- 1:  A Botanical Excursion: The Rivals of Tea -- 2:  The Heartstrings of National Pride: Southeast Asia and the Origins of Tea -- 3:  A Slave of Yoghurt: Tea in the 1st to 6th Centuries -- 4:  Go Have Some Tea!: The Tang Dynasty -- 5:  Cloudy Feet in a Hare's Fur Cup: The Song Dynasty -- 6:  Buying Peace with the Celestial Beverage: The Tea and Horse Trade -- 7:  The Taste of Zen is Tea: Japan in the 12th to 15th Centuries -- 8:  Sen Rikyū the Tea Master: The Perfection of the Japanese Tea Ceremony -- 9:  Han Xin Counts the Soldiers: Tea in the Ming and Qing -- 10:  How the Dalai Lama Got His Name: Brick Tea in Tibet and Mongolia -- 11:  We Invented the Samovar!: The Russian Caravan Tea Trade -- 12:  Conquering New Lands: The Islamic World of Tea -- 13:  Approved by Physicians: The Advent of Tea in Europe -- 14:  The Progress of this Famous Plant: Tea and the Opium Wars -- 15:  A Master Teapot Maker's Midnight Ride: Tea in America -- 16:  Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe: India and Ceylon in the 19th Century -- 17:  The Heyday of the Clipper Ships: British Tea -- 18:  Vignettes from the Global Village: Tea in Our Time -- Appendix A: The Autobiography of Instructor Lu -- Appendix B: A Debate Between Tea and Beer -- Appendix C: A Genealogy of Words for Tea -- Acknowledgments -- Sources of Quotations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright.

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