Steeped in History: The Art of Tea

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.