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Tea Geek Paradise

Posted on May 11, 2018 by MarshalNMay 11, 2018
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I spent the past three days in central Taiwan doing fieldwork visiting tea farms and such. Once you’ve seen a few tea farms, they all start to blend in – farms on their own are not particularly interesting unless the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Teas | Tagged black tea, history, Taiwan oolong, travel | 4 Replies

Life and death of a tree

Posted on April 24, 2017 by MarshalNJuly 25, 2017
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This is a picture from my friend L, who is visiting Yiwu again this year. He’s been going for some years now, the first visit of his from 2007. He said when he first went to Yiwu, this tree was … Continue reading →

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Posted in Teas | Tagged history, travel, young puerh | 11 Replies

300 years old tea

Posted on November 21, 2016 by MarshalNNovember 21, 2016
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I didn’t see this when it came out, but apparently, they found a box of tea from 1698. I only saw this because I’m now reviewing a book called Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World. What’s … Continue reading →

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Posted in Teas | Tagged green tea, history | 1 Reply

A Foreign Infusion

Posted on March 24, 2016 by MarshalNMarch 24, 2016
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As some of you know, doing research in history is my day job. I am happy to announce that a research article of mine, on the history of gongfucha (as a ceremony of sorts) is out in the current issue … Continue reading →

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Posted in Information | Tagged history, skills | 27 Replies

Review: two films about Rikyu

Posted on May 18, 2014 by MarshalNMay 18, 2014
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Rikyu is, for lack of a better comparison, the Mohammad of Japanese tea. All three of the formal schools claim descent from him, and among the many branches of tea ceremony most of them are intimately connected with the three … Continue reading →

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Posted in Information | Tagged history, Japanese tea, musings | 9 Replies

The original Oriental Beauty

Posted on April 9, 2014 by MarshalNSeptember 24, 2017
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As some of you know, I’m a historian in my day job, and my new project is working on the history of how ideas (drinking practice, health concerns, etc) and technologies (plantation methods, processing techniques, etc) pertaining to tea moved … Continue reading →

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Posted in Teas | Tagged history, Taiwan oolong | 6 Replies

Tea is poison

Posted on August 20, 2013 by MarshalNAugust 20, 2013
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I’m currently in Heathrow waiting for my plane to Munich, where I’m going to be giving a (pretty terrible and rough) paper that I’ve been working on regarding early ideas about tea in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Information | Tagged health, history | 5 Replies

Kitano Tenmangu and Shōkōken

Posted on December 25, 2012 by MarshalNMay 16, 2020
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We are spending a quick few days in Kyoto, and one of the nice things about Kyoto is that there’s tea pretty much literally everywhere you go. Today we spent a little time at Kitano Tenmangu, an important Shinto shrine … Continue reading →

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Posted in Information | Tagged history, Japanese tea, travel | 3 Replies

Ways to cheat in tea

Posted on December 20, 2012 by MarshalNDecember 20, 2012
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It’s been a busy few weeks, what with grading, trying to finish a few papers, so on so forth. One of the papers I was trying to write and still in pretty shambolic state is one on the Taiwanese industry. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Information | Tagged history, Taiwan oolong | 13 Replies

Rough thoughts on Oriental Beauty

Posted on October 26, 2012 by MarshalNOctober 26, 2012
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I’m working on a paper on Oriental Beauty (dongfangmeiren 東方美人), the highly oxidized oolong from Taiwan. It’s still in nebulous form, but I thought it might be interesting to jot down a few things that I have found so far … Continue reading →

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Posted in Teas | Tagged history, Taiwan oolong | 21 Replies

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