The Way of Tea
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy novels set in tea country and regional flavor
- Readers drawn to legends and stories of intertwined fates
- Readers interested in narratives built around relics and objects such as the jade Buddha
- Casual readers looking for a twisting plot and a dense web of characters
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting systematic tea knowledge and hands-on tea craft
- Readers who prefer realistic restraint and reject outlandish premises
- Readers impatient with multi-character, multi-thread narratives
Reading tips
- First sort out the character lines of Zhu Xuan, Huiming, Su Tong, the Tea Immortal, and Zhong Shan before reading.
- Treat the jade Buddha's movements as a marker of the plot's advance.
- When you hit an outlandish premise, accept the narrative rules first, then judge the characters' motives.
- If you want to learn about tea country, pay attention to the descriptions of setting and objects rather than just following the plot.
About the publisher
Writers Publishing House is a Chinese publisher focused mainly on literary publishing. Its output covers classical literature, foreign literature, folk literature and Eastern philosophy, with some extension into popular reading such as social fiction and parenting books. Its catalogue contains more than 900 titles, including representative works such as Dream of the Red Chamber and its edited editions, Shakespeare's Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and foreign literary classics such as The Brothers Karamazov and Lost Illusions. In terms of authors, it includes classical writers such as Cao Xueqin and Gao E, foreign masters such as William Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Balzac, and translations by translators such as Zhu Shenghao, Geng Jizhi and Fu Lei. Overall, its publishing profile balances Chinese and foreign literary classics, emphasizes quality translations, and serves both academic and general readers; publicly available information on its specific publishing plans is limited.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 作者简介
- 引子
- 1.惊魂
- 2.书院
- 3.茶山的女儿
- 4.蝴蝶
- 5.特异功能
- 6.书声
- 7.斗茶
- 8.饥饿
- 9.抢板凳
- 10.唾液
- 11.赌徒
- 12.舞客
- 13.夜市
- 14.邂逅
- 15.夜壶
- 16.化蝶
- 17.茶仙子
- 18.孽债
- 19.重逢
- 20.弃儿
- 21.我的爱人叫玉
- 22.女神
- 23.盛宴
- 24.毛妞
- 25.五更
- 26.香香行长
- 27.佛前
- 28.疯狂的夜
- 29.故人
- 30.半岛
- 31.跪
- 32.第一面
- 33.问计
- 34.“鬼打转”
- 35.乡愁
- 36.仙子茶乡行
- 37.命运
- 38.梦呓
- 39.对饮
- 40.你从哪里来
- 41.辟谷
- 42.“十二先生”
- 43.选秀
- 44.抛绣球
- 45.女儿
- 46.渴
- 47.猎物
- 48.茶祖大典
- 49.问佛
- 50.九儿
- 51.古酒
- 52.村庄
- 53.怀春
- 54.哺乳
- 55.忏悔
- 56.海上宝贝
- 57.牌局
- 58.抉择
- 59.雪
- 60.开坛
- 61.忐忑
- 62.露水夫妻
- 63.羽化
- 64.老驴
- 65.蜂蜜
- 66.春蚕
- 67.孤独者
- 68.待嫁新娘
- 69.太阳照常升起
- 70.答案
- 71.我的爱人化蝶了
- 72.花烛夜
- 73.竹喧疯语
- 74.追梦人旁白
- 后记
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About the author
He Zhengquan is an author about whom very little public information is available. The only confirmed detail is that he wrote the novel The Way of Tea, which is classified as a social novel. Since his dates of birth and death, nationality, education, and writing career are not reliably documented, no speculation is made here about his personal life. Judging from the work at hand, a social novel generally places characters' fates within a concrete social setting and develops its narrative through everyday human relations and changing times; the title The Way of Tea may also suggest an interest in tea culture, trade life, or local customs. Readers who wish to understand his style and concerns can turn only to this single work, and cannot infer an overall creative trajectory from it. On the whole, He Zhengquan remains an author with few works and an uncollected biography, whose literary profile will become clearer only when more material is made public.
