African Agency in China's Tea Trade

Commercial Networks, Brand Creation and Intellectual Property
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50568-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

Reihe: African Social Studies Series

Every month tons of green tea travel from China to West Africa in a movement that largely thrives beyond the attention of Western observers. In this trade, Malian merchants assumed a central role. They travel to China, visit family gardens and the factories, which process and package the product. Together with their Chinese suppliers, they select the tea leaves and create their brand. On Bamako’s largest market, the Grand Marché, more than a hundred different tea brands are found, whose packages have colourfully, often eye-catching designs with brand-names such as Gazelle, Tombouctou, Arafat and Obama. This book explores the unique tea culture that celebrates with its brands the strength of desert animals, the fading glory of trading places, the excitement of social events and the accomplishments of admired politicians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Röschenthaler, Ute

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenreproduktion, Verbreitung, Genetik

Über Autor(innen)

Ute Röschenthaler, Ph.D. (1991), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, is extracurricular professor of anthropology. She published on cultural mobility, intellectual property and trade networks, including Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America: Economic Networks and Cultural Interactions (ed. with Alessandro Jedlowski, 2017).