Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
by Hohenegger, Beatrice (Edited by); with Bartholomew, Terese Tse, et al. (Essays by)
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- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0977834417
- ISBN 13
- 9780977834419
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Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2009. 235 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Traces the impact of tea from its discovery in ancient China to the present-day tea plantations of Assam, crossing oceans and continents in the process. This book examines the multitude of ways in which tea has figured in the visual and literary arts." - Publisher. CONTENTS: China, cradle of tea culture, by Beatrice Hohenegger; Tea in China: from its mythological origins to the Qing Dynasty, by Steven D. Owyoung; Learning pottery in Yixing, China, by Terese Tse Bartholomew; The way of tea in Japan, by Beatrice Hohenegger; Buddhist thought and the way of tea, by Dennis Hirota; Dissension in the world of tea: the fashion for Sencha and Chinese culture in early modern Japan, by Patricia J. Graham; The sacred and the profane: the role of women in Edo Period tea culture, by Reiko Tainimura; The tea craze in the west, by Beatrice Hohenegger; Tea and the middle class, by Woodruff D. Smith; Tea and the conversation piece, by Angus Trumble; Determining the growth and distribution of tea drinking in eighteenth-century America, by Barbara G. Carson; Beyond Boston: pre-revolutionary activism and the other tea American tea parties, by Jane T. Merritt; Tea and empire, by Beatrice Hohenegger; Teapots, opium pipes, guns: from the Canton trade to the Opium War, 1700-1842, by John E. Wills Jr.; Tea labor, and empire in India, by Elizabeth Kolsky.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.
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- Title
- Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
- Author
- Hohenegger, Beatrice (Edited by); with Bartholomew, Terese Tse, et al. (Essays by)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0977834417
- ISBN 13
- 9780977834419
- Publisher
- Fowler Museum at UCLA
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 4to
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- Antiques; European / British & Irish; Genre & Subject / Food & Drink;
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