薩拉·羅斯Sarah Rose,作傢,現居住在紐約,生長於芝加哥。羅斯分彆從哈佛大學和芝加哥大學獲得學位。她是美國紐約文學基金會的受助者。《改變世界史的中國茶葉》(For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World 's Favorite Drink and Changed History)是她的處女作。
譯者:孟馳,福建農林大學東方學院(現福州工商學院)英語語言文學學士,譯著《迦太基必須毀滅》
Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory forbidden to foreigners - to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea. For centuries, China had been the world's sole tea manufacturer. Britain purchased this fuel for its Empire by trading opium to the Chinese - a poisonous relationship Britain fought two destructive wars to sustain. The East India Company had profited lavishly as the middleman, but it was now sinking, having lost its monopoly to trade tea. Its salvation, it thought, was to establish its own plantations in the Himalayas of British India. There were just two problems: India had no tea plants worth growing, and the company wouldn't have known what to do with them if it had. Hence Robert Fortune's daring trip.The Chinese interior was off-limits and virtually unknown to the West, but that's where the finest tea was grown - the richest oolongs, soochongs and pekoes. And the Emperor aimed to keep it that way. In a Mandarin's dress, with a black braid sewn into his hair, Robert Fortune ventured deep inside the country, risking his life for science, adventure, and a place among the great plant explorers. From Kew Gardens to grimy Old Shanghai, and on to the remote Wu Yi Shan hills, Sarah Rose tells a true tale of pirates, rebels, subterfuge, espionage, and how one man triumphed over an exotic and corrupt Empire.
發表於2024-09-19
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在十九世紀的中國與英國的關係上,甚至可以說東方與西方的關係上,起到關鍵作用的是兩種植物,茶葉與鴉片。對於英國而言,當英國人通過皇室接受瞭茶葉並且成為民間的狂熱愛好之後,茶葉的消耗量就急劇上升,對於英國政府而言,茶葉貿易帶來瞭10%的政府收入,同時也帶來瞭對中國...
評分 評分三星給書,多加一星因為茶。 此書大概就講清楚瞭一個問題,那就是維多利亞時期之後,英國人更喜歡紅茶勝過綠茶的基本原因,還有流行於世界的斯裏蘭卡,大吉嶺,阿薩姆紅茶的來源,都是來自從中國盜取的茶葉樹和種子。 本書想要刻畫福鈞這一因為英國殖民擴張産生的一代植物學傢...
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看瞭一點,挺有趣的。英國人為瞭喝茶也是拼瞭。
評分看瞭一點,挺有趣的。英國人為瞭喝茶也是拼瞭。
評分茶葉原産地那個時代的風土人情,生活方式,穿衣打扮最為吸引人,福瓊的每一段旅程都充滿著驚險與意外,故事情節還是很有可讀性的。感嘆呀,茶葉的世界之旅原來是從閉塞的武夷山鬆蘿山開始的
評分看瞭一點,挺有趣的。英國人為瞭喝茶也是拼瞭。
評分茶葉原産地那個時代的風土人情,生活方式,穿衣打扮最為吸引人,福瓊的每一段旅程都充滿著驚險與意外,故事情節還是很有可讀性的。感嘆呀,茶葉的世界之旅原來是從閉塞的武夷山鬆蘿山開始的
For All the Tea in China 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載