Routes of Taiwan Tea: Mobility, Borders, and Territoriality - Couverture souple

Hung, Po-Yi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0295754354 ISBN 13 : 9780295754352

Editeur : University of Washington Press, 2026

Synopsis

Demonstrates how a popular commodity has reshaped borders, traditions, and geopolitics From misty mountain oolongs to the global boba boom, Taiwan’s teas carry far more than flavor. They embody contested borders, evolving identities, and the complexities of nationhood. Routes of Taiwan Tea traces tea varieties, processing expertise, and merchants across Taiwan and Southeast Asia to reveal how a simple leaf has become a force in global politics. Drawing on decades of fieldwork and extensive archival research, Po-Yi Hung delves deep into the history Taiwan’s tea industry, from its roots in the Qing empire to its role in modern food nationalism. Hung shows how advocacy for Taiwanization—the movement to recover and celebrate the island’s unique history and culture—occurs not only within Taiwan’s food scenes but also through cross-border exchanges. Oolong cultivation in Thailand’s highlands and bubble tea’s rise in Vietnam demonstrate how tea acts as a nonhuman agent, fostering connections and unsettling conventional notions of sovereignty. Through these routes, tea becomes more than agriculture; it becomes an instrument of diplomacy, a marker of authenticity, and a symbol of cultural pride. Offering a fresh perspective on Taiwan’s geopolitical positioning, Routes of Taiwan Tea redefines how borders are imagined and lived. It is an essential contribution to food studies, political geography, and East and Southeast Asian studies, illuminating how everyday practices like drinking tea shape global relations.

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À propos des auteurs

Po-Yi Hung is associate professor of geography at National Taiwan University. He is the author of Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling over Dilemmas on China's Southwest Frontier (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

James Lin is assistant professor of history at the University of Washington.

William Lavely is professor of sociology at the University of Washington. He is a coeditor of Rural China on the Eve of Revolution: Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949–1950 by G. William Skinner (University of Washington Press, 2016) and the author of many articles on demography and the family in contemporary China.

Madeleine Yue Dong is professor of history and chair of China Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories (University of California Press, 2004); editor of Everyday Modernity in China (University of Washington Press, 2006); and coeditor of The Modern Girl Around the World (Duke University Press, 2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0295754354
• ISBN 13: 9780295754352
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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