Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic (Culture, Place, and Nature Series)
Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic (Culture, Place, and Nature Series)
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Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the \"6 Wonderful Tea Mountains\" of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan through the so-known as Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor in Beijing. In the 1990s, as the tea’s noble lineage and special approach of aging and fermentation had been rediscovered, it achieved cult standing each in China and internationally. The tea became a preferred amid urban connoisseurs who analyzed it in language comparable to that used in wine appreciation and paid skyrocketing charges. In 2007, however, nearby events and the international economic crisis brought on the Puer marketplace to collapse. Puer Tea traces the rise, climax, and crash of this phenomenon. With ethnographic focus 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 key industry—with predictable risks and unexpected consequences.
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