The Ancient Tea-Boat Waterway

Introduction

      “The Ancient Tea-Boat Waterway” chronicles how Liupao Tea, leveraging its distinctive tea boat network along the Pearl River since the Ming Dynasty, rapidly disseminated across regions while interconnecting with the Maritime Silk Road to reach Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asian nations, Japan, South Korea, Europe, and America. This remarkable journey inscribed a splendid chapter in the annals of Chinese tea distribution. Grounded in archival research and journalistic investigations, the book employs multidimensional perspectives and interdisciplinary synthesis to meticulously reconstruct this historic thoroughfare of international cultural exchange and commercial trade.

Author(s) Information

Authors: YANG Mai, SU Aiqing, LONG Tianchuan and ZHAO Yang
Translators: the Translation Team of The Ancient Tea-Boat Waterway

The Ancient Tea-Boat Waterway