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Stuff You Missed in History Class

The East India Company's Theft of China’s Tea Secrets

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.223.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Great Britain's relationship with tea is part of its cultural identity. But before the mid-1800s, China was the only source of tea, which was a problem in the eyes of the East India Company.

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I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a coffee.

1:01.7

But today around the world, people drink tea all the time.

1:04.7

And of course, for Great Britain, it's no secret that tea has become part of the cultural identity.

1:08.7

We'll talk about some shifts in that at the end.

1:10.7

But right up until the 19th century, the only place that tea was really being grown and prepared was China.

1:17.7

So this brings up the question of how did tea become the drink of Britain?

1:22.7

And that story is kind of a long one.

1:24.7

It comes with some caveats as to where truth and legend overlap.

1:28.7

But then there's this really interesting 19th century corporate espionage story that comes into the mix.

1:34.7

So I thought we would talk about that kind of the, it's not even a brief history of tea.

1:38.7

It's really like Great Britain's relationship with tea as we know it.

1:42.7

Yeah.

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