Session 26: Qing China

Topics

❖ Two Qing dynasty tea practices:

• Manchu culture and dual kitchens
• gongfu cha / Kungfu cha (功夫茶•工夫茶)

❖ Some primary Qing dynasty tea innovations:

• oolong tea
• gaiwan (covered tea cup)

❖ Qing dynasty tea manual:

• Additional Book of Tea (Xu Cha Jing 續茶經•续茶经) by Lu Tingcan (陸廷燦)( bibliographic entries sometimes, incorrectly, have this as Lu Yancan 陸延燦), ca. 1734

❖ Examples of Qing dynasty paintings

❖ Some comments on Qing dynasty porcelain

Thoughts—read before class, revisit for tests

See Qing notes.

Required—to be completed for today's session

✓ Qing 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).
✓ Qing various [bSpace, PPT] (Spring 2013: there is a new version and now includes the earlier Qing ceramics, if you downloaded the Qing ceramics file, and has a couple of paintings, and has "testable" markers on it: 130327)
✓ Readings from Story of the Stone [bSpace, PDF]

Media links

I may or may not have time to screen portions of the following YouTubes that cover how to use a gaiwan. I've selected, from among the many overly mannered or "exotic" presentations of this, two very plain & practice presentations:

• How to brew tea gongfu style using gaiwan
• How to Pour a Gaiwan

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!