Session 20: Song China ②: Tea practices 2

Topics

❖ Trade & Tribute (Liao Dynasty)
❖ Tea Contests (茗戦・闘茶・回茶・飲茶勝負・茶寄合・茶湯勝負・貢茶・茗茶・銘闘)
❖ Teahouses

Thoughts—read before class, revisit for tests

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Required—to be completed for today's session

✓ Song notes [bSpace, PDF] *You are invited to print this out before class and use it as a base document for note-taking. Please check back, however, to see if a new version was published just before or perhaps after the session (but in time for a test). — These notes cover the several sessions. Compare the topics stated on this session page with the actual progress in class to get a sense for how much to read ahead of time and/or printe out to bring to class. (Printing out all the notes once at the beginning might not be the best option since there is a likelihood that they will be updated as I prepare or complete lectures. The Song lecture support notes are less complete than most other support notes.

✓ Consider reading ahead for the next session. There is a substantial amount of reading required.

Multimedia notes

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Links

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Other

Details regarding teahouses (chaguan 茶館) with some illustrations on cultural-china.com: Chinese Tea House - China Culture

A short online article on teahouses in Sichuan: Land of Teahouses by Gwenaële Chesnais

Links to each session page

Sun, Sept 1, 2013: I am migrating this site to a new site. It takes time. During this transition, there are two ways to access a particular day's web page. You can start with the new EA109 Fall 2013 Course Guide page, our official top page. It will take you directly to the new pages and redirect to old pages when necessary. Or you can use the below chart. It will take you directly to the day's session page—the new one when it exists, the old one when it has yet to be migrated. Greenhighlight means the new page exists. Sorry for the dust and mess during construction!