具体描述
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.
作者简介
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》
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本来是怀着极大的兴趣买本书来阅读的，但是看过之后不免失望。 失望的原因主要来自作者的视角，一种并不带有这个时代（作者的时代）该有的关怀去描述当时福均在中国的所见所闻。虽然事情发生在150多年前，当时人们的视角肯定和现在人不一样，但是作者也并没有采用客观的历史角...
评分 评分 评分茶叶这种植物以及不同种类茶的制作方法的被窃取，对中国来说，肯定造成了致命的打击，但是对于当时的东印度公司来说，各种因素导致他走出这一步，天时地利人和。 人：福钧这个出身比较低的植物学家，要想实现自己的抱负和提升自己的阶级地位，雇佣于东印度公司到中国寻找茶叶以...
评分《茶叶大盗：改变世界史的中国茶》，萨拉·罗斯。这是一个内涵丰富的故事，与茶叶有关，与大航海后的世界农作物与经济作物大交流有关，与中国近代史有关，与知识产权有关，正好把各类知识在这样一个故事中串接起来，读起来颇有意思。茶叶起源于中国，这点连韩国人都没敢抢，唐...
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中国应该找英国人印度人交知识产权转让费，并罚款。
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。
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