Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West Hohenegger BeatricePaperback
Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene - in medicine, politics, the arts, culture, and religion. Behind this most serene of…
Specifikacia Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West Hohenegger BeatricePaperback
Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene - in medicine, politics, the arts, culture, and religion. Behind this most serene of beverages, idolized by poets and revered in spiritual practices, lie stories of treachery, violence, smuggling, drug trade, international espionage, slavery, and revolution. "Liquid Jade"'s rich narrative history explores tea in all its social and cultural aspects. Entertaining yet informative and extensively researched, "Liquid Jade" tells the story of western greed and eastern bliss. China first used tea as a remedy. Taoists celebrated tea as the elixir of immortality. Buddhist Japan developed a whole body of practices around tea as a spiritual path. Then came the traumatic encounter of the refined Eastern cultures with the first Western merchants, the trade wars, the emergence of the
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