The Tea Road – China and Russia Meet Across the Steppe

Author: Martha Avery
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 7508503805
Published on: 2003-01
Paperback

This book tells the story of the Tea Road. Its subject is economic and cultural history : how the Tea Road bound the Eurasian continent into one unit . The vehicle for this story is tea, a material of profound significance in the lives of diverse peoples and a material that can be used to track a continent’s people

Foreword
Tea Road Chronology
Introduction: The Tea Road from Three Perspectives, China , Russia , the Steppe
1 The Tea Road , Start to Finish
“Plucking the Hills and Boiling the Oceans”
Start of the Tea Trade in China
3 Transcontinental Tools of Trade
4 Ming Horse Markets along the Great Wall : Kalgan
5 Pedlar Wang and a Tea-trading Conglomerate on the Steppe
6 Camel Caravans to Urga : Lamas and Lamaseries in the Gobi
7 Crossing the tuul River at Urga
8 The Manchus Take Mongolia
9 Carving a way the Lefthand Khanate from Both Ends
10Count Sava and the Founding of Kiakhta
11 Spy Posts at the Russian Yards in Beijing
Footnotes
Glossary
Index