Chinese Tea Culture and Its Changing Landscape

An advanced Chinese language course that explores the world of Chinese tea culture, history and its impact on everyday life in contemporary China. Myths and philosophies related to tea will be analyzed to offer students a deeper understanding of Chinese tea history and culture. Students in track A can take this course either concurrently with or after CHIN 407 , but students in track B can take this course only after completing CHIN 313 . This course is not intended for native speakers of Chinese.