Reading between the leaves
By Li Yingxue | China Daily | Updated: 2018-04-13 07:32
A new book accompanying a documentary series about the history of Chinese tea and its global cultural significance has just been published. Li Yingxue reports.
In the middle of 19th century, Scottish botanist and plant hunter Robert Fortune famously stole tea plants and seeds from China and took them to India, from where they traveled to the rest of the world.
The tea Fortune purloined from the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian province used to be known by the trade name Bohea in English, which is a derivation from the Fukienese pronunciation of "Wuyi".
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