Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Preface     xi
From East...     1
Behind the Veils of Legend and Myth     3
The Tao of Tea     9
Lu Yu, the Tea Sage     12
I Care Not a Jot for Immortal Life, but Only for the Taste of Tea     18
Gloved Virgins at Dawn     22
Tea Bricks, Ox Blood, Horses, and Cash     27
The Guessing Game     31
The Eyelids of Bodhidharma     36
Zen and the Tea Masters of Japan     40
Chanoyu     49
...to West     57
Foreign Devils     59
The Impertinent Novelty of the Century     68
Garway's Slightly Skewed View on Tea and the Resulting Broadside     73
The Penny Universities     77
The Revenge of the Fair Sex     82
Smuggling and Smouch     89
Sugar, Anyone?     98
Gin Lane, Tea Lane     103
The Porcelain Secret     110
The Willow and the Lovers     116
A Large Cup of Tea for the Fishes     120
The Opium Factor     128
China Pried Open     137
The Tea Spy Who Came from the West     145
The Wilds of Assam     153
Tea Tom and Mr. Taylor     161
Tea Clippers: A Race to the End     169
Curiosities, Obscurities, Misnomers, and Facts     177
Tea and Tay, Ch'a and Chai     179
The Enigma of the Camellia     182
I Say High Tea, You Say Low Tea     188
Milk in First?     191
The Tea Bag     195
Iced Tea     198
What Color Is Your Tea?     200
The Mystery of Acronyms     205
The Tea Taster     210
Like Water for Tea     218
Tea Buzz     226
The 22,000 Virtues of Tea     230
Tea Today: The People and the Earth     237
Two Leaves and a Bud     239
A Fair Cup     248
Where the Birds Sing     254
Singpho Tea     262
Epilogue     271
Tea Meditation with Friends     273
Chinese Dynasties and Japanese Chronological Periods     277
Chinese Romanization-Wade-Giles to Pinyin Table     278
Notes     283
Bibliography     303
Index     313