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Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene – in medicine, politics, the arts, culture, and religion. Behind this most serene of beverages, idolized by poets and revered in spiritual practices, lie stories of treachery, violence, smuggling, drug trade, international espionage, slavery, and revolution.
Liquid Jade’s rich narrative history explores tea in all its social and cultural aspects. Entertaining yet informative and extensively researched, Liquid Jade tells the story of western greed and eastern bliss. China first used tea as a remedy. Taoists celebrated tea as the elixir of immortality. Buddhist Japan developed a whole body of practices around tea as a spiritual path. Then came the traumatic encounter of the refined Eastern cultures with the first Western merchants, the trade wars, the emergence of the ubiquitous English East India Company. Scottish spies crisscrossed China to steal the secrets of tea production. An army of smugglers made fortunes with tea deliveries in the dead of night. In the name of “free trade” the English imported opium to China in exchange for tea. The exploding tea industry in the eighteenth century reinforced the practice of slavery in the sugar plantations. And one of the reasons why tea became popular in the first place is that it helped sober up the English, who were virtually drowning in alcohol. During the nineteenth century, the massive consumption of tea in England also led to the development of the large tea plantation system in colonial India – a story of success for British Empire tea and of untold misery for generations of tea workers.
Liquid Jade also depicts tea’s beauty and delights, not only with myths about the beginnings of tea or the lovers’ legend in the familiar blue-and-white porcelain willow pattern, but also with a rich and varied selection of works of art and historical photographs, which form a rare and comprehensive visual tea record. The book includes engaging and lesser-known topics, including the exclusion of women from seventeenth-century tea houses or the importance of water for tea, and answers such questions as: “What does a tea taster do?” “How much caffeine is there in tea?” “What is fair trade tea?” and “What is the difference between black, red, yellow, green, or white tea?”
Connecting past and present and spanning five thousand years, Beatrice Hohenegger’s captivating and multilayered account of tea will enhance the experience of a steaming "cuppa" for tea lovers the world over.
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The best tea book.......2007-09-21
I spent 23 years on tea plantations since 1974. I started my tea trading business in 1998 after leaving plantations. Then I started my tea books library after seeing a very large volume of tea literature in China, which I started visiting regularly since 2004.
This book is the best one I have seen which narrates the world transition of tea scene in the most lucid way.
SHORT REVIEW.......2007-07-28
I really enjoyed this book.I liked the short chapters because I read before I fall asleep and this was like a little sip of something interesting. Though the history is not always peaceful, the tone is peaceful and like all good histories it told me of things i didn't know I wanted to know until it was told so well.
Tea, trade, meditation, not to mention a war or two........2007-06-12
Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue stunning, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and -- adore thee. Colley Cibber, The Lady's Last Stake, an eighteenth century play
I freely admit it, I'm addicted to tea. It doesn't matter what time of day it is, I'm nearly always in the mood for a cup of fresh brewed tea. I've built up a stash of good tea, stored in colourful tins and boxes, assembled a decent collection of teaware and implements to brew, sip and serve tea in, and have amassed a small library's worth of books filled with the history and lore of tea and what to serve with it. The problem is, now like an addled crack addict, I can never quite be satisfied -- there's always a new blend to be tried, more exotic pluckings from distant lands with names that evoke mystery. In short, I have found a hobby that will always fascinate me.
When I found this on a recent book-buying binge, I thought here we go again, yet another babbling about tea. And in the fond hope of finding something new, I started plodding my way through the narrative. Author Beatrice Hohenegger takes the usual route, starting with the mythic origins of tea, when a Chinese emperor was taking a rest on a journey, waiting for the bowl of boiling water to cool down enough to drink -- he insisted that water be boiled for health's sake -- and a leaf from a nearby plant fell into the water. The rest, as they say, is history. Quickly, cha as the resulting liquid became known as, was touted as a miraculous plant, good for meditation, curing stomach ills, extending life, and in general, becoming a valuable and much sought after commodity. For centuries, tea was turned into money, the quality of the water to brew it debated over, plucked by gloved virgins in private plantations reserved for the Emperor's use, and turned into the varieties that we know today -- black, oolongs, pu-erh, green and white teas.
Then the Portugese and the Dutch and the English showed up, and in the seventeenth century, tea made its first impact on Europe, and by extension, the Americas. Night-owls embraced it, fashionistas set trends, and most importantly, governments taxed it as a ready cash cow for when funds got low. Problem was, people liked it too much to give it up, and when the taxes got too high, smuggling set in, along with inventive ways to make tea 'stretch' a bit by mixing in various substances that were both dangerous, and sometimes poisonous to the customer. Eventually, some standards came about, and the big monopolies that controlled importation of tea from China were broken up.
And now comes the tricky part -- Hohenegger doesn't just settle for the history of tea, but how tea has affected the world. The problem hit when China, being the only real producer of tea, insisted that payment be made in cold, hard silver for tea, silks and the other luxury goods that the West was craving. Thing was, the British simply couldn't come up with enough to pay -- so they found something else that the Chinese wanted -- opium. Cheap opium from India, and the Chinese were more than happy to pay whatever was asked, with the end result that the economy crashed and the government stepped in and what was known as the Opium wars started up. And it wasn't the only problem that tea had created -- there was the need to sweeten that tea that the Europeans liked, and the best sugar came from the West Indies, creating a crisis with slavery.
Fighting the Opium wars taught the English one thing -- they needed to find another source for tea. A cheap place, with cheap labour -- why not India? And in the nineteenth century, after China firmly kicked out the opium traders, tea plantations started up in Assam, Darjeeling, Nilgiri and other prime spots. Now nearly all of the tea that is drunk is grown in India, and in that jewel, Sri Lanka, or as it was known, Ceylon. New problems have arisen in the modern age as well, and Hohenegger raises the question of what is known as 'fair-trade practices.'
She doesn't stop there as well. Later parts of the book look at things such as the creation of porcelain to drink tea in, how tea is graded and what is really that stuff in those tea-bags (shudder) in the supermarket? Answer -- you really don't want to know. The ongoing revolution in the US about loose-leaf teas, and the ever-growing market for what I think of as the 'good stuff.' The funniest chapter has to be the MIF vs TIF range war -- what goes in first, the tea or the milk?
Hohenegger's writing is amusing, provocative and first rate. What I really enjoyed was the fact that she didn't take the subject so seriously that she didn't mind plunking down a joke or pun into the text. While the chapters are alas, very small -- not much more than several pages in length -- they're jammed with all sorts of information, and it makes for a satisfying read. There is some tedium when she goes on about how workers, especially women, are still being exploited, and kept at the bottom of the tea-production ladder, it also refrains from getting too preachy about it either.
Black and white illustrations and line drawings are throughout the text, and each chapter is opened by a quote that deals with some aspect of tea. While the illustrations are rather poor in quality, they are interesting, and it was a pity that the clarity was sacrificed -- I would that they had been reproduced on photographic paper and presented as an insert rather than littered throughout the text.
Two appendices go into the backgrounds of Chinese and Japanese chronology and the two systems of transliteration of Chinese names and terms -- Wade-Giles vs Pin-Yin. The notes are extensive and very detailed, as well as a bibliography for future reading, and an index for those who want to zero in on a particular aspect of tea.
I was happy that I took the time for this work. It was insightful, took the broad view, didn't romanticise anything, and was brave enough to point fingers. I got to rediscover some things I didn't know about my favorite beverage, and I hope to see more work by Hohenegger in the future. This gets a solid four stars from me.
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A Fascinating History of the World's Most Popular Beverage.......2007-05-29
I once went to a basic lecture about tea, which inspired an interest beyond merely drinking the beverage. Before I read this book, however, I had no idea how rich of a history was involved. It concerned more than tranquil tea ceremonies in Japan or fancy tea parties for British aristocracy. There was also a darker side including drug trade, espionage, revolution (such as our own Boston tea party), violence, and exploitation of laborers. It is a fascinating mix of socio-political developments -- some glorious, some shameful. And in the process, I was also learning some interesting facts about world history.
Fear not, this book does not neglect practical matters such as how much caffeine is in tea, what kind of water to use, or should one put milk in first or tea in first.
Hohenegger tells it all in a style which will amaze you, make you laugh, and sometimes sadden you. You'll never look at tea in quite the same way again after reading this book.
Eye Opening.......2007-05-24
The book was so engaging that i would look forward to come home from work and begin reading. It was interesting to learn that such a readily available drink could have affected dramatically the history of different countries. The author shed light on subjects that most of us are not aware of, such as how different cultures prepare their tea, and tea labor issues. The book contained so much information that i have begun to read it again.
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A superb book.......2004-04-26
To understand the history of pre-Columbian Costa Rica it is necessary to understand the importance of jade. Beyond the esthetic symbolism of jade and what it represented to the cultures who traded it, jade also marks the beginning of heightened social complexity. Interestingly, no sources of Jade have been discovered within Costa Rica. While it is possible that sources existed and were either completely exploited or were somehow lost (due to geological upheaval, for example) and have yet to be re-discovered, it is most likely that the jade pieces discovered in Costa Rica were produced from raw materials quarried far to the north in the land of the Olmecs and the Maya. The development of jade production was made possible by more advanced social organization and simultaneously led to more trade and cultural interaction, bringing along with it not just an exchange of materials but most likely a further exchange of ideas between the cultures of pre-Columbian Central America. As a result, when jade appears in the archaeological record of Costa Rica it is accompanied by significantly richer cultural development.
Since the book description on this page is rather incomplete, I'd like to take a moment to briefly describe the contents. This book consists of 4 chapters: "The Archaeological Context of Jade in Costa Rica" by Juan Vicente Guerrero, "Mesoamerican Jade and Costa Rica" by Mark Miller Graham, "The Imagery and Symbolism of pre-Columbian Jade in Costa Rica" by Michael J. Snarskis, and "The Collections of the Museo del Jade" by Zulay Soto Mendez. While each article is great it is Snarskis' contribution that stands out in my mind. The book also contains an exhibition catalog of jade artifacts, an extensive bibliography, and thorough index. While the volume is slim at 144 pages, keep in mind that the price is also modest. And those 144 pages are used very wisely; there is a lot of useful information in this slim volume. In short, this is a useful volume for any scholar with an interest in pre-Columbian history.
There is a useful selection of maps and diagrams, and the photographs are of wonderful quality. While there is a large number of photographs of jade artifacts, what is notable is the size and quality of many of the photographs. Most of these photographs are by Joseph Coscia Jr., of the Photograph Studio of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Coscia's use of lighting in his photographs is superb, with the shadows serving to perfectly bring out the texture and the detail of the pieces. The lay-out, typesetting, and photographs all come together to create a book that is lovely to look at even if you can't read English. In a word, this volume is beautiful.
Obviously such a book has a rather limited audience. Scholars in such fields as art history and archaeology of pre-Columbian Central America will certainly find this volume useful, and it certainly belongs on the shelves of larger public libraries and in community college libraries that have a strong art or history focus. And obviously, this volume belongs in the library system of any university. Any educated person with an interest in art and history would benefit greatly from reading this book before vacationing in Costa Rica. It's the perfect preparation to get the most out of a day at the Jade Museum located in San Jose.
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Taking us from the imperial courts of ancient China to a squalid mine in Burma today, THE STONE OF HEAVEN-now in paperback-reveals for the first time the bizarre true story of Imperial Green Jade, one of the rarest stones in the world, more precious than diamonds, coveted for its life-extending powers and its aphrodisiac properties as well as for its astonishing beauty-a stone that has shaped the destiny of nations and changed the lives of all who have worn it.
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Fascinating but uneven & sometimes trivial.......2006-06-07
Having picked this book up for a discount of just $4, I wasn't expecting much, but the authors do provide some much appreciated fillers for my knowledge of recent - the past 300 years - history of China and Indo-China. The narrative does tend to be overlong and not always artfully written and what I found most trivial was the excessive attention paid to profligate movie stars and heiresses and their overwrought, self-important and self-indulgent pursuit of a green rock. When one reflects that the authors are British tabloid schlock-meisters, it explains the uneven and tedious attention to celebrity that is so wearying in their account. Maybe the British public expects such treacle, but the rest of the world, and this American reader, appreciate their research while suffering their literati indulgences.
But the story is a heartbreaking one that depicts just how low-down, vile, murderous and evil all men and women can stoop because of an obsessive attachment to material goods, one which continues to this day in Burman/Myanmar. You get the sense that entire nations can have a karmic burden that continually haunts all its people and Burma is one such nation. China seems to have come out from under its negative karma, to its great fortune.
What I found most puzzling is that if these two writers were really able to penetrate the heart of Myanmar's most horrific mine, why has there been little or no public light shed on this.
I do appreciate these British writers casting an unabashed light on the rapacious, arrogant and thieving behavior of their imperial ancestors - they do not flinch to recount uncouth, barbaric behavior by British soldiers looting the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace as well as their arrogant attitude toward all asian peoples. Now I understand the vitriolic hatred that engendered such now comical, but then potent and patriotic sloganeering by Mao's China about 'imperialist running dogs.'
Overall, a good read for four bucks, but some material could easily be skipped.
Fascinating story, poorly told........2005-06-15
The facts of the history of jade are fascinating, but here are told with tiring meanderings, overlong explanations of tangential topics, and an ending that featured too much of the authors. A chore to get through.
An excellent and thorough read.......2002-08-11
Levy and Scott-Clark are excellent story tellers, and do they ever have a story to tell. Tracing the history of imperial green jade, or jadeite, they begin in the late 18th century with Chinese emperor Qianlong and 400 rivetting pages later end in present day Myanmar. Along the way the reader is exposed to the unrestrained profligacy of the Chinese emperors and the equally unrestrained ignorance and arrogance of the British colonialists. There is scheming and plots within plots as players in the Chinese dynasties kill their own progeny to ensure a malleable emperor will succeed. The plundering by the British of the old Imperial summer palace is shocking, and the primitive warfare of the Kachin in Burma is horrifying. Levy and Scott-Clark's descriptions put the reader right into the midst of the action: the writing is so effective that you can feel the clinging humidity of the Burmese jungle as 19th century British explorers plod along in search for the mines from whence the jadeite is extracted.
Also of tremendous interest were the passages about the Dowager Empress Cixi. If all you know about the last emperor Pu Yi is from the wonderful movie "The Last Emperor," this book will help round out some of the events and issues driving the Pu Yi story along that were alluded to in the movie. Besides, the movie's only allusion to Cixi is in the very beginning when the toddler Pu Yi is brought to the Forbidden City. Levy and Scott-Clark reveal to the reader from where Cixi came and how her desire for the jadeite was often at the core of her political machinations.
And then there are the final chapters that reveal a scenario so horrifying, so shocking that even the surrealistic visions of Francis Ford Coppola in "Apocolypse Now" cannot compare.
This is definitely the best book I've read so far this year, and probably the best book I've read in the past five years. After reading this book you will not be able to look at another piece of jadeite, no matter how beautiful, and not whince because now you know the stone's infamous history.
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No ordinary man is permitted to see the great Kwan-Yu, emperor of China, but this doesn't stop the beautiful, green-eyed Dream-of-Jade, since she is not an ordinary man, but a rather unusual cat. When Dream-of-Jade decides she wants to see His Highness, she simply slips into the empty throne room and sits upon the imperial throne. When Kwan-Yu arrives, she does not give up her seat, but does point out the dangerous state of the emperor’s ceiling. Thus begins the great friendship between an Emperor and a little white cat, who not only saves the emperor’s life at their first meeting, but knows how to cure his ailments, make him laugh, and entertain him, and whose greatest wish is to make Kwan-Yu the best emperor ever to rule China.
Lloyd Alexander has written this little masterpiece filled with details from ancient Chinese court life. With his sharp wit, tongue-in-cheek humor, and good-natured satire, he exposes the rigidity of ancient imperial customs and traditions. Dream-of-Jade’s no-nonsense solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems delight children and adults alike, making this tale an unforgettable reading adventure for the entire family.
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* Delightful IRONY from the Ancients is Uncomfortably Contemporary * .......2006-08-30
Come laugh with me and allow an Imperial Feline to draw back the veil of Time that obscures Imperishable Truths. You doubtless know Lloyd Alexander as a prolific writer & author of medieval fantasies. In "Dream-of-Jade" his wonder-filled stories tell us about ancient China and Emperor Kwan-Yu. "Jade" is the cat who stole his affections.
The author dedicated his book to "my dear cats who told me these tales." Fables can be enjoyed 'time and again' - - these were first published in CRICKET magazine in 1976. We learn how historical events were clarified by the wisdom of "Jade": how she cured the emperor, wrote the Law, and most importantly made the emperor laugh. Her beautiful green eyes & white fur is realistically portrayed through the artistry of D. Brent Burkett. He, as well as the cat, get in a few 'swipes' at pompous know-it-all bureaucrats. Some of the tongue-in-cheek humor may be lost on the youngest listeners but they will love the highly stylized speech with "important" words, and the rhythm of complicated 'titles' - such as this on page 36: "the Glittering Repository of Highly Valuable Objects."
If we listen attentively as any cat lover should, we will realize there are often lessons for adults to be found in children's picture books. Reviewer mcHAIKU suggests that you allow yourself to be hypnotized by "Dream-of-Jade."
Purrfect!.......2005-12-30
Dream-of-Jade is a fabulous and fantastic story that emphasizes kindness, generosity, diplomacy, and common sense. The setting is beautiful, the characters are delightful, and nestled throughout the stories are bits of humor, pieces of irony, and the occasional new vocabulary word. Mr. Alexander's book is smart and charming, and as good a read for adults as it is for children. As an added bonus, the artwork, while more impressionistic than many children's books, adds to the flavor of the story quite well, providing a detailed enough view of events that one can see them while not detracting from the reader's eager imaginings.
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Buy this book! - And a few others too..........2006-06-03
This is one of the absolute best, most fascinating books ever written on the rhythm of daily Aztec ritual life; its massive (bloodthirsty) pantheon of gods; how the Aztec religion and its built-in fatalism maintained unwavering and absolute control over ALL of Aztec society -- from the emperor to the lowest slave: top to bottom, no exceptions.
In the book, Dr. Brundage also does an excellent job of illustrating all primary aspects and motivations in Aztec life. He goes into some detail regarding how Aztec class structure worked; how one could rise or sink in terms of status in the Aztec world, and why social ranking for nearly all was valued over absolutely everything -- even wealth.
Quite importantly, the author draws an unvarnished picture of Aztec life (without needless grizzly details) and avoids completely, irksome or politically correct intellectual gymnastics inorder to sugarcoat what was an utterly enigmatic civilization which ran on dread and fear; was completely obsessed with death -- one's own death and of others: The ritual murder of tens of thousands of men, women and small children each year -- all in a desperate, vain attempt to placate the gods -- who were insatiably hungry for mountains of human hearts and rivers of blood. Beyond this, Brundage goes into some detail regarding the importance of cannibalism in Aztec society, enjoyed particularly among the elite warriors, the nobility, and the Emperor. In contrast, the hoi polloi quite rarely (if ever) feasted on human flesh. Thankfully, the author never attempts to insult our intelligence by lamely excusing evil, inexcusable behavior, such as cannibalism and ritual murder -- of vast numbers of people -- including even small children.
Anyone serious about understanding the Aztec mind and social order should *ALSO READ* -- "Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos" by K. A. Read.
Another truly *EXCELLENT* book on Aztecs -- that should be on everyone's MUST-READ LIST -- is, "Burning Water: Thought and Religion in Ancient Mexico" by Laurette Sejourne: This is, hands down, one of the **VERY BEST** books ever written about Aztec civilization and their "peculiar religion."
FYI, Dr. Brundage has authored nearly a dozen most extraordinarily well written and researched books on Aztec life and civilization; most are (sadly) out-of-print for some time and thus, can be tough to find; try searching Amazon.
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On April 10, 1975, the Hanoi government of North Vietnam took control over the South. South Vietnamese, particularly "intellectuals" and those thought to have been associated with the previous regime, underwent terrible punishment, persecution and "re-education." Seeking their freedom, thousands of South Vietnamese took to the sea in rickety boats, often with few supplies, and faced the dangers of nature, pirates, and starvation. While the sea and its danger claimed many lives, those who made it to the refugee camps still faced struggle and hardships in their quest for freedom.
Here are collected the narratives of nineteen men and women who survived the ordeal of escape by sea. Today, they live in the United States as students, professors, entrepreneurs, scientists, and craftspeople who have chosen to tell the stories of their struggles and their triumph. Each narrative is accompanied by a brief biographical note.
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A wonderful book about real and courageous people.......2005-05-01
This book is the most moving book I have ever read.
It presents the life a Vietnamese people after 1975 through the stories of 19 vietnamese boat people who immigrated to the US after sometimes several attempts. The stories are told in simple and humble terms. They describe the life under communist ruling and the fear and courage to escape it. The book shows the life in the refugee camps around South East Asia. It is also a book about hope of a better life and about the adjustement to the American language and the American way of life. It also shows how these admirable people integrated in the US society.
The author should be congratulated for telling this untold stories that everybody who heard of Vietnam should know. All my respect and admiration to the Vietnamese people who suffered so much for so long.
An aftermath of the war........2002-01-14
From 1975 to 1996, more than one million people have made the trip from Vietnamese shores to other Southeastern Asian countries braving weather, hunger, dehydration, storms, and pirates. About 500,000 others have drown or died at seas. In spite of these ordeals, these people keep rushing to the seas to flee communism. Had they had the means, the majority would have left their country.
These are the stories of 19 people who left their homeland on rickety boats, their ordeals at seas, their lives in refugee camps, and their relocation in western countries. They risked their lives to look somewhere else for FREEDOM they could not find in their country.
There are many waves of refugees throughout the years. People from the first wave were mostly professionals and went almost immediately to the U.S. or other western countries. Refugees from subsequent waves traveled in rickety boats, were less well schooled and spent a longer time in the Asian refugee camps.
The authors are to be congratulated for bringing this topic to the forefront.
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Dark Kingdom of Jade(Wraith).......2000-05-09
This book is one among the better books in the White Wolf's Eastern World of Darkness setting, in my belief it is right next to Kindred of the East. Set in the Dark Kingdom of Jade with its unique family system, eastern philosophies and honor systems, the book greatly expands and completes the view of the Eastern world of Darkness. I find the Dark Kingdom of Jade setting more better related to the idea of the Chinese underworld (less so than the Japanese and Buddhist) than say the somewhat boring and flawed Dark Kingdom of Iron, Stygia in the main Wraith game. I recomend that you get this supplement if you really like the Kindred of the East as it will greatly expand the Eastern World of Darkness. On the downside of the game, they're certain things within the game that doesn't seem to fit. It is somewhat difficult to explain but the world is just somewhat more restricted and the idea of free adventure is somwhat stunted by the feeling of political games between the wraiths. But one thing is true though, the Eastern underworld is much more horryfying than the western one.
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Memoires resistantes: Histoire du reseau Jade-Fitzroy, 1940-1944 (L'Histoire a vif)
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- No. 1 Price Guide to M.I.Hummel Figurines, Plates, Miniatures, & More (Mi Hummel Figurines, Plates, Miniatures & More 10th Ed. (Mi Hummel Figurines, Plates, Miniatures & More Price Guide)
- Nutcracker
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Tea
Tea: The Drink That Changed the World
Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire
The Way of Tea: The Sublime Art of Oriental Tea Drinking
Yixing Pottery: The World Of Chinese Tea Culture (Arts of China)
