Steeped in meaning: China's tea culture

Steeped in meaning: China's tea culture

Richard Bales picks tea leaves in Yunnan province. [Photo provided to China Daily] When I arrived in China to teach law, I didn”t expect to come home with so much tea. Nor did I expect what the tea would come to mean. In my first week at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, my teaching assistant handed me a small package. It was tea from her home province of Yunnan. Later, a student gave me tea her parents had just mailed fr…