GGM243 - NEW BOOK Gugong Palace Museum ed: CHA SHIJIE JUAN SAN. The World of Tea: Volume III. 茶世界:卷三. Beijing, 2024. 310 pp. Colour plates throughout, many full page. 31x24 cm. Cloth. GBP 130.00 Catalogue of a third exhibition on the all-important subject of tea in Chinese culture held at the Gugong Museum in Beijing in late 2024. This very interesting volume is in two main sections reflecting the exhibition's content: Part 3: Tea Roads Extending to the World. Part 4: Tea's Everlasting Fragrance. Part 3 examines the international spread and influence of tea outside China and its rise and use as a beverage in Japan, Europe and elsewhere. There are interesting and little-seen loans from, amongst others. the Victoria and Albert Museum and the State Hermitage Museum. Part 4 examines the various types of tea. Illustrated throughout with many fine and unusual objects. Introductions, lists of plates and captions to plates in English. Main text in Chinese. Four essays accompany with brief abstracts in English. Subjects: Tea Art Item 5 in List 212. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?g/GGM243.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |