{"product_id":"issue-15","title":"Issue 15","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo of the world's most storied tea regions are changing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIssue 15 travels to Assam and follows the Darjeeling culture that somehow took root in Chiang Mai, Thailand — asking how place, people, and politics shape what ends up in the cup, and what it means when a tradition migrates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChang Ching Yuan makes ceramics without a plan or a signature. In a world of constant self-promotion, his refusal to brand himself is its own kind of argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Book of Tea was not born in Kyoto. Its origins lie in the intellectual salons of Boston, where Okakura Kakuzo wrote it for a Western audience at a particular moment in the history of empire and exchange. We go looking for that context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTeaware from 1660 to the present: how the objects made for brewing have reflected — and sometimes led — shifts in aesthetics and meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTanzania grows tea that most of the world never hears about. We follow the growers and the factories, and make the case for paying attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTea in Japanese fiction, from The Tale of Genji to Murakami: what the cup holds on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eighty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54019634233684,"sku":"IS15","price":27.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1019\/8555\/0676\/files\/issue_15.jpg?v=1774824382","url":"https:\/\/readeighty.com\/products\/issue-15","provider":"Eighty","version":"1.0","type":"link"}