How the British obsession with tea shaped Hong Kong
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This is an old post. I wrote it after re-reading James Clavell’s Tai-Pan for the nth time. If it weren’t for that novel, I might have gone through life unaware that there was a time when transporting tea from Asia to Europe was immensely bloody, and rife with intrigue and machinations.
How the British obsession with tea shaped Hong Kong
How the British obsession with tea shaped…
How the British obsession with tea shaped Hong Kong
This is an old post. I wrote it after re-reading James Clavell’s Tai-Pan for the nth time. If it weren’t for that novel, I might have gone through life unaware that there was a time when transporting tea from Asia to Europe was immensely bloody, and rife with intrigue and machinations.