num_pages: 274
description: Few commodities are as synonymous with any civilization as tea with China. Robert Gardella's book analyzes the multifaceted influence of tea production and the tea trade upon Fujian, a premier tea-growing region, illuminating the economic, social, fiscal, and environmental ramifications of China's involvement with a dynamic world economy. Today, as contemporary China increasingly opens up to foreign trade, the historical experience documented here takes on a renewed importance.
language: English
title: Harvesting Mountains: Fujian and the China Tea Trade, 1757-1937
publisher: University of California Press