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发表于2024-11-22
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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.
萨拉·罗斯Sarah Rose,作家,现居住在纽约,生长于芝加哥。罗斯分别从哈佛大学和芝加哥大学获得学位。她是美国纽约文学基金会的受助者。《改变世界史的中国茶叶》(For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World 's Favorite Drink and Changed History)是她的处女作。
译者:孟驰,福建农林大学东方学院(现福州工商学院)英语语言文学学士,译著《迦太基必须毁灭》
茶叶原产地那个时代的风土人情,生活方式,穿衣打扮最为吸引人,福琼的每一段旅程都充满着惊险与意外,故事情节还是很有可读性的。感叹呀,茶叶的世界之旅原来是从闭塞的武夷山松萝山开始的
评分中国应该找英国人印度人交知识产权转让费,并罚款。
评分看了一点,挺有趣的。英国人为了喝茶也是拼了。
评分茶叶原产地那个时代的风土人情,生活方式,穿衣打扮最为吸引人,福琼的每一段旅程都充满着惊险与意外,故事情节还是很有可读性的。感叹呀,茶叶的世界之旅原来是从闭塞的武夷山松萝山开始的
评分中国应该找英国人印度人交知识产权转让费,并罚款。
高中毕业已经很多年了,到刚刚为止还有一个疑问在我脑海深处盘踞着: 历史课本中在讲到印度的第一次独立运动的时候说导火索是英国殖民者在发放给印度士兵的子弹上涂有猪油和牛油,而士兵的主要信仰是印度教和伊斯兰教,英国殖民者通过这一行为来羞辱印度土兵,进而导致印度民族...
评分这本书放入想读书单很久了,一直因为各种原因拿起没读几页又放下了。这周值班,工作不忙,抽闲读完这部书。 美国作家沙拉.罗斯讲述英国茶叶猎人从中国盗取茶种制茶方法罗伯特.福钧的传奇故事。最终他改变了历史进程。 有以下几点体悟: 大航海时代探索时期已经结束,各个海上帝...
评分三星给书,多加一星因为茶。 此书大概就讲清楚了一个问题,那就是维多利亚时期之后,英国人更喜欢红茶胜过绿茶的基本原因,还有流行于世界的斯里兰卡,大吉岭,阿萨姆红茶的来源,都是来自从中国盗取的茶叶树和种子。 本书想要刻画福钧这一因为英国殖民扩张产生的一代植物学家...
评分这本书放入想读书单很久了,一直因为各种原因拿起没读几页又放下了。这周值班,工作不忙,抽闲读完这部书。 美国作家沙拉.罗斯讲述英国茶叶猎人从中国盗取茶种制茶方法罗伯特.福钧的传奇故事。最终他改变了历史进程。 有以下几点体悟: 大航海时代探索时期已经结束,各个海上帝...
评分高中毕业已经很多年了,到刚刚为止还有一个疑问在我脑海深处盘踞着: 历史课本中在讲到印度的第一次独立运动的时候说导火索是英国殖民者在发放给印度士兵的子弹上涂有猪油和牛油,而士兵的主要信仰是印度教和伊斯兰教,英国殖民者通过这一行为来羞辱印度土兵,进而导致印度民族...
For All the Tea in China pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024