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Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic

Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic

Zhang, Jinghong
Sivaramakrishnan, K.

Paperback

Series: Culture, Place, and Nature

AnthropologyChinese HistoryCoffee & Tea

ISBN10: 0295993235
ISBN13: 9780295993232
Publisher: Univ Of Washington Pr
Published: Dec 1 2013
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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