For all the Tea in China by Sarah Rose reviewed by Brooke Gschwind
“For all the Tea in China -How England Stole the World 's Favorite Drink and Changed History
” as the subtitle foreshadows the story already. Before I had even read the book I assumed it
would be a journey of betrayal, action and only closed off to the events that occur re 's as Robert
Fortune underhandedly takes china 's precious tea right from underneath they 're own noses.
But little did I know that it Sarah Rose has incorporated all the events essential to the to
cultivation of tea in the mid Nineteenth-century. In Audition to this Historical non-fiction story that
may be boring to others, or as one of my fellow classmates would put it “I
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And also the hold of opium production as well as tea production, and civilization
helped.
Fortune 's First 12 month period trip was spent traveling to the Zhejiang and Anhui provenances
for Green Tea. He had to disguise himself as a well paid merchant which wasn 't enough to get noticed
but held enough respect he usually was given. He needed to do deceive the local Chinese and
Tea producer 's in order to get the information but there was no detail in how he did it, which I thought
it would be a lot more exhilarating to know the master plan of how he was able to deceive so easily
and to be trusted with that much valuable information, and most importantly needed the information of
how to process and grow tea or it would be useless to get the thousands of
seeds and saplings necessary to start a growing tea profitably with out having a clue of doing so and
let them die. Also During Fortune 's Expedition it would be impossible to travel the multiple
provenances of China with out a Guide or Help to carry his Warden cases by him self hence he had to
hire servants a collie whom preferred to be called that and Wang a business negotiator which served
well but was easily influenced into trouble to a common trait that most Chinese did at the time it was
called the “Squeeze” which was extracting money illegally from someone trying to earn a few bucks.
And handful of trouble came from Fortune 's servants betrayal
“This was the routine of the old China trade. These were the commodities traditionally brought to China and traditionally carried away. And at the heart of the trade was tea. It came from no other place. India did not then produce any, nor Ceylon, Java, or Formosa; Japan was inaccessible; the world perforce drank China teas. Above all, the English drank them” (17).
How did tea transform English society? Who were its main consumers and what were some of the new rituals that surrounded tea?
One of the largest points that the author makes is the significance of tea to the people in the colonies. While there were many who thought that tea was evil and caused health issues, the overwhelming majority of colonist were obsessed. Tea was something new and seen as a luxury item. It took a six-month voyage for the EIC to bring to the precious leaves to Boston. Once there, it was auctioned to those who could afford it. While the bourgeoisie sipped their tea and
1. The area became an important source not only of spices but also of the world's tea
- First in its market to brew its tea from tea leaves as opposed to artificial powders.
Once established as England's national drink, tea imports from first China and India led to massive trade. The book describes the power of the British East India Company, which “generated more revenue than the British government and ruled over far more people,”
During the late 1700s, the East India Company had a monopoly on all of the tea in the colonies. Tea was everything
Saberi, H. (2010). Tea Comes to the West. In Tea:A Global History. [Adobe Digital Editions Version]. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/
The British hoped that the tea act would undercut the tea smuggled into britain's north american colonies.The British government led by the Prime Minister, Lord North, hoped to reassert Parliament’s right to impose direct revenue taxes on the American Colonies with the cheap tea.Never-the-less the British anticipated a good reception to the Tea Act in America, after all, the colonists would get their tea at a cost lower than ever before.Tea would be cheaper in America than Britain. Ships laden with more than half a million pounds of tea set off for the colonies shortly after the Tea Act was passed.
want to become in the near future. He believes that a Chinaman’s chance is as good as
When did the Boston Tea Party take place you may ask? The Boston Tea Party lasted approximately 3 hours on December 16, 1773. Which this time of year in Massachusetts it is extremely cold at night. I bet now you’re wondering why it’s called The Boston Tea party, or why does it contain the word tea. Did we really have a fight over tea? The Boston Tea Party didn’t get this name til the 1820’s. Before then is was called the destruction of the tea.
In the late sixteenth- century Europe adopted a caffeinated warm drink for the first time this included chocolate, tea and coffee. Tea fills the senses with a bittersweet scent. This herb came from china by ship. Unlike cider and beer tea was new to the English-speaking world (49). Starting in the eighteenth- century Europe trading companies began to market green and black tea (51). Before this time period tea was very rare in the west region of British north America. Only the wealthy could originally afford tea and sugar. Tea was also used as a source of herbal medicine rather than traditional methods. This herb was also expensive because it shipped across great distances and allowed the East India Company to charge higher prices and labor added an extra charge. This resulted in tea becoming a luxury item in the colonies (53). The Townshend’s act in 1767 put a tax on tea which Americans responded that parliament could not tax without their consent. This frustrated the colonist because it put their love for tea at risk, so they responded to parliament by aiming at British merchants and manufactures
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