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Branding Bohea Tea into a Successful Commodity in Early Tea Trade | Kunbing Xiao

From the mid-17th to the mid-19th centuries, Bohea, the earliest black tea, was one of the most successful commodities in the global market. As Bohea travelled from its place of origin in China’s Wuyi Mountains to its major overseas market in Great Britain, its corresponding knowledge also circulated globally among producers, traders, and consumers, transforming in meaning as it moved across time and space. The early success of Bohea in international trade resulted both from its commodity characteristics of low price and durable taste, and from the selecting, screening and editing of knowledge by various middlemen along different stages of the value chain, as well as the interaction and adaption of knowledge with consumers' demands. Kunbing Xiao is an anthropologist and Associate Professor in the School of Anthropology and Sociology at Southwest Minzu University (China). Her research interests include anthropology of food, tea, and wine, sensory anthropology, and cultural heritage studies. Kunbing received her PhD degree from the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology of Xiamen University, China, with a thesis on the Bohea tea trade in northern Fujian from the 17th to the 19th century in the context of modern globalization. From 2014 to 2015, she was an ArgO-EMR research fellow affiliated to the school of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. From 2017 to 2018, she was the joint postdoctoral fellow of NYU Shanghai at CGA (Center for Global Asia) and ARC (Asia Research Center) of Fudan University. She is a visiting scholar affiliated to CEMMC (Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Modernes et Contemporains) at Bordeaux Montaigne University (2022-2023). About the conference: This international meeting addressed natural, cultural and social histories of tea between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Arguably the first truly modern globalised commodity, the process by which tea attained such pre-eminence depended not just upon the commercial efforts of merchants, but also upon a cultural framework of knowledge and practice constructed primarily in China, Britain, Europe, and India. Among other topics, the meeting explored natural histories of the tea plant; the mobility of Chinese tea and porcelain; European attempts to cultivate tea; imaginaries of tea in literature and art; tea and material culture; tea, identity, and the formation of the British Empire. This meeting was co-sponsored by the Linnean Society of London, Syracuse University (USA), and Oak Spring Garden Foundation (USA). The conference organisers would also like to thank Todd B. Rubin for his generous support. Hosted by the Linnean Society of London and organised by Richard Coulton (QMUL), Jordan Goodman (UCL), and Romita Ray (Syracuse University). The Linnean Society works to inform, involve and inspire people of all ages about nature and its wider interactions through our collections, programmes and publications. Founded in 1788, the Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). https://www.linnean.org Follow us on social media:   / linneansociety     / linneansociety     / linneansociety