#For All the Tea in China

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For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History
April 8, 2010 4 min. read

By Sarah Rose Ch. 4: Shanghai to Hangzhou, September 1848 Robert Fortune was patient as the coolie attended to his new coif. A small blue and white tea bowl sat nearby on a dusty crate, and swirling its sediment of leaves, Fortune spilled the cooling liquid out onto the dirty deck. Floors were the place […]

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