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Tea: How Britain Screwed India and China

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Tea is an interesting beverage. Join me in my language journey! With Lingoda's Sprint Challenge, you can now earn up to 75 free classes for attending classes consistently for 60 days! Use the code ELLIOT20 for 20 EUR (or 25 USD) off, you can also use my link https://try.lingoda.com/ElliotSang my apologies to Erling Hoh for my inexplicable reading of his surname as "Moh" join the channel to get access to perks! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqpg8i6CryfkIw0uqytHsow/join follow me on instagram: http://instagram.com/elliotsangestevez editing by danae o.! featuring voiceover cameos from @earthtonellie (as The Lady Chablis) and @BABILA. (as Nate) 00:00 introducTion 03:28 i like To cha cha 10:49 myThs 19:15 briTish Tea 36:59 The beginnings of chai Bibliography Daniel Stone (2014). “The World’s Top Drink”. National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/the-worlds-top-drink Statista. Volume of tea consumption worldwide from 2012 to 2025: https://www.statista.com/statistics/940102/global-tea-consumption/ Merriam-Webster. “Let's Talk 'Tea'” https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/tea-slang-meaning-origin John Berendt (1994). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” The Lady Chablis (1996). “Hiding My Candy” William G. Hawkeswood (1996). “One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem”. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996 1996. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6t1nb4dd/ (note: this is the published version of Hawkeswood’s 1991 dissertation “One of the Children: An Ethnography of Identity and Gay Black Men”) Erling Hoh and Victor H. Mair (2009). “The True History of Tea” Kola Nut - an overview. Science Direct. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/kola-nut#:~:text=The%20kola%20nut%20has%20long,Nigeria%2FCameroon%2C%20and%20Gabon. Nikhil Sonnad (2018). “Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea”. Quartz. https://qz.com/1176962/map-how-the-word-tea-spread-over-land-and-sea-to-conquer-the-world Hans Peter Kraus (1970). “The Famous Voyage: The Circumnavigation of the World 1577-1580”, from “Sir Francis Drake: A Pictorial Biography”. https://www.loc.gov/collections/sir-francis-drake/articles-and-essays/drake-biography/the-famous-voyage/ Lippincott's Magazine (1897). “A Pot of the Best Chaw”. https://www.nytimes.com/1897/05/23/archives/a-pot-of-the-best-chaw.html Niall Ferguson (2004). “Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power”. https://archive.org/details/empire00nial Markman Ellis, Matthew Mauger, and Richard Coulton (2015). “Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World” Tonio Andrade (2004). “The Company's Chinese Pirates: How the Dutch East India Company Tried to Lead a Coalition of Pirates to War against China, 1621-1662”. Journal of World History, Vol 15, N. 4, December 2004, pp. 415-444. doi:10.1353/jwh.2005.0124. William Farrell. “Smuggling Silks into Eighteenth-Century Britain: Geography, Perpetrators, and Consumers”. Journal of British Studies Vol. 55, No. 2 (APRIL 2016), pp. 268-294. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24702001 Gang Zhao (2013). “The Qing Opening to the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684-1757” Philip Lutgendorf (2012). Making tea in India: Chai, capitalism, culture. Thesis Eleven, 113(1), 11–31. https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513612456896 Soma in Hinduism: https://www.britannica.com/topic/soma-Hinduism William Dalrymple (2019). “The Anarchy” United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. “The Cultivation of the Opium Poppy in India”. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bulletin_1954-01-01_3_page002.html Andrew B. Liu (2020). “Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India” Alex Downs (2022). “All the Tea (Not) in China: The Story of How India Became a Tea-Drinking Nation”. Serious Eats. https://www.seriouseats.com/indian-tea-history-5221096 Mridula Chari (2014). “The glorious history of India's passion for tea, in eight images”. https://scroll.in/article/683453/the-glorious-history-of-indias-passion-for-tea-in-eight-images Homi Bhabha (1994). “The Location of Culture” Vacation template from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaIMUnulmTw

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