Puer Tea (eBook)

Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic

Jinghong Zhang (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
272 Seiten
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-80487-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 teas 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 industrywith predictable risks and unexpected consequences.Watch the associated videos at https://archive.org/details/PUERTEADVD1.

Autor

lt;P>Jinghong Zhang is a lecturer at Yunnan University.

Inhalt

Foreword Acknowledgments Transliteration, Names, and Measures Maps

Introduction

Spring1. �The Authentic Tea Mountain Yiwu� 2. Tensions under the Bloom

Summer3. �Yunnan: The Home of Puer Tea� 814. Heating Up and Cooling Down 106

Autumn5. Puer Tea with Remorse 6. Transformed Qualities

Winter7. Tea Tasting and Counter�Tea Tasting 8. Interactive Authenticities

Conclusion: An Alternative Authenticity

Appendix 1: Puer Tea Categories and Production Process Appendix 2: Supplementary Videos

Notes Glossary References Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Culture, Place, and Nature
• Reihe/Serie: Culture, Place, and Nature
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): K. Sivaramakrishnan
• Verlagsort: Seattle
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-295-80487-4 / 0295804874
• ISBN-13: 978-0-295-80487-3 / 9780295804873