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Author Chow, Kit Boey, author

Title All the tea in China / by Kit Chow and Ione Kramer
Published San Francisco : China Books and Periodicals, [1990]
©1990
©1990

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 MELB  641.3372 Cho/Att  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 187 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Contents Preface -- Introduction -- 1. China : the tea tradition -- 2. Tea goes to the world -- 3. Chinese tea customs -- 4. The teahouse, center of local life -- 5. The Japanese art of tea -- 6. Ceramics and other tea "equipage" -- 7. Tea growing and processing -- 8. Some tea chemistry -- 9. Tea and your health -- 10. How to make a "nice cup of tea" -- 11. Judging, storing, other uses -- 12. Fifty famous Chinese teas -- A seventeenth century view of tea : Garway's broadsheet -- List of teas described -- Famous teas by provinces -- The twenty-four solar terms -- Cantonese names of teas described
Summary Traces the history of tea, looks at Chinese and Japanese tea customs, explains how tea is grown and processed, and describes fifty Chinese varieties
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references: pages 185-187
Subject Tea -- History.
Tea -- China.
Author Kramer, Ione, 1926-2008, author
LC no. 89060878
ISBN 0835121941 (paperback)
9780835121941 (paperback)