Beyond Opium: Rethinking Jardine Matheson through Tea (opens in new tab)

In this post Huirong Cheng (University of Edinburgh) presents their research, which was supported by the Economic History Society’s Research Fund for Graduate Students. — Tea is among the most familiar commodities in British life. For many, brewing a cup remains an ordinary domestic ritual. Yet the nineteenth-century world that brought Chinese tea to Britain […] The post Beyond Opium: Rethinking Jardine Matheson through Tea appeared first on Economic History Society.