2003

Tea East and West, du V & A Museum, a été publié en 2003. Ming Wilson s'étend longuement sur les époques anciennes qui mettaient le thé à l'honneur, mais son survol de la révolution culturelle p. 43  est-il de son cru ou a-t-il été tronqué?

During the turbulent years of the 1960s and 1970s tea drinking was stripped of all its attendant niceties. Most people drank tea simply to quench their thirst. With the growth of the economy since the 1980s, however, the Chinese have once again begun to spend liberally on both tea and tea utensils.