Teapots, Opium Pipes, Guns: From The Canton Trade To Opium War, 1700-1842 August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets John E. Wills Jr. IN 1793 GEORGE LORD MACARTNEY, ambassador of His Majesty George III to the Qianlong Emperor of Great Qing, was received in a splendid ceremony at the...
Tea And Empire August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets Beatrice Hohenegger A TEAPOT DECORATED WITH A WARTIME IMAGE of a city in flames is highly unusual Susan Thayer's Opium Wars Teapot (fig. 1v.1), however, proves to be a compelling...
Beyond Boston: Prerevolutionary Activism And The Other A merucan Tea Parties August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets Jane T. Merritt THE BOSTON TEA PARTY holds a revered place in the history of the American Revolution and is often cited as key to our political independence and emerging...
Determining The Growth And Distribution Of Tea Drinking In Eighteenth-Century America August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets Barbara G. Carson BEFORE BRITISH TAXATION EFFORTS and the American Revolution politicized tea, the acquisition of new domestic equipment for serving this hot beverage and the display of genteel behavior...
Tea And Conversation Piece August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets Angus Trumble close by those Meads for ever crown'd with Flow'rs, Where Thames with Pride surveys his rising Tow'rs, There stands a Structure of Majestick Frame,Which from the neighb'ring Hampton...
The Tea Craze In The West August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets Beatrice Hohenegger FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, tea was regarded as one of the seven daily necessities ip China - dnmk at every occasion, celebrated in poetry and art,and offered as...
The Sacred And The Profane: The Role Of Women In Edo Period Tea Culture August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets Reiko Tanimura WHEN THE ART CRITIC AND PHILOSOPHER Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) chose wabicha, the form of chanoyu perfected by Sen no Rikyu in the sixteenth century, as a typical example...
Buddhist Thought And The Way Of Tea July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets Dennis Hirota THE TRADITIONAL JAPANESE PRACTICE known in English as the "tea ceremony" or "way of tea" was referred to in early writings simply as chanoyu, or "tea in hot...
Teatime: An Introduction July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets Beatrice Hohengger THE QUESTION "D0 YOU TAKE SALT IN YOUR TEA?" was not uttered, as one might guess, by an absentminded hostess in an Oscar Wilde play, but it certainly...
The Way Of Tea In Japan July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets Beatrice Hobenegger TEA WAS PRAISED BY CHINESE DAOISTS as an elixir of immortality and has long been a revered beverage in spiritual practices. This is especially true in Japan where...
Tea In China: Form Its Mythological Origins To The Qing Dynasty July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets Steven D. Ooeyoung MORE THAN TWELVE CENTURIES AGO, the first words of the Chajing, or Book of Tea, portrayed a stately evergreen deep within the primeval forest as the progenitor...
Brief Introduction To The Seals And Inscriptions Of Zisha Teapots July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets Author/photo: Huang Renwen For centuries, the seal and inscription of a particular Zisha teapot has been deemed as an important basis for identifying authenticity of the teapot. In general, there...