Reddit reviews For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
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He also lured over a whole bunch of Chinese tea growers who knew how to properly grow and process tea. There is a book I love about the whole episode, For All the Tea in China.
For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose talks about how important tea was to the British Empire, how China were the only ones who knew how to make in prior to the 1800s; and they refused to open up despite Britain's gunboat diplomacy.
The book details the journey of Robert Fortune, a Scottish botanist sent into inland China to steal the secret to tea-making - the biggest industrial espionage of its time, which in turn led to tea being spread around the world.
For All the Tea in China has some history of this time.
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