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The Teahouse under Socialism
To understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its most basic units of social life. InThe Teahouse under Socialism, Wang does just that, arguing that the teahouses of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, are some of the most important public spaces-perfect sites for examining the social and economic activities of everyday Chinese.
Wang looks at the transformation of these teahouses from private businesses to collective ownership and how state policy and the proprietors' response to it changed the overall economic and social structure of the city. He uses this transformation to illuminate broader trends in China's urban public life from 1950 through the end of the Cultural Revolution and into the post-Mao reform era. In doing so,The Teahouse under Socialismcharts the fluctuations in fortune of this ancient cultural institution and analyzes how it survived, and even thrived, under bleak conditions.
Throughout, Wang asks such questions as: Why and how did state power intervene in the operation of small businesses? How was \"socialist entertainment\" established in a local society? How did the well-known waves of political contestation and struggle in China change Chengdu's teahouses and public life? In the end, Wang argues, the answers to such questions enhance our understanding of public life and political culture in the Communist state.
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Death in a Budapest butterfly
\"Hana Keller serves up European-style cakes and teas in her family-owned tea house, but when a customer keels over from a poisoned cuppa, Hana and her tea-leaf reading grandmother will have to help catch a killer in the first Hungarian Tea House Mystery from Julia Buckley.\"--Publisher's description.
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Building Maslow’s Transcendence: The Wabi Tearoom as a Case Study
Many architects are familiar with psychologist Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs. Far fewer are aware of the final version, however, completed more than two decades after the first, or of the precise meaning of the need at the top of that final hierarchy, “transcendence.” In the absence of deliberate built expressions of Maslow’s notion of transcendence, this paper uses parallels with the Zen-inspired Japanese tearoom as a means of exploring its potential architectural implications. It shows how four fundamental ideas that Maslow’s transcendence called into question, the separate self, the material body, space, and time, can all be effectively challenged through the design of built environments. Based on these findings, it is argued that Maslow’s examples of transcendence represent a potentially significant and under-explored source for built environments to serve the human need that he placed above all others. The paper concludes that Maslow’s particular interpretation of transcendence—as essentially moving beyond commonly accepted ideas—is potentially applicable to many if not most aspects of our lives and hence also to the built environments that accommodate them.
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The secret ingredient
While working at her grandmother's Madison, Wisconsin, teashop, fourteen-year-old Annie hears of a scone cook-off, for which the prize is an all-expense paid trip to London for tea, and enlists Genna and Zoe to help her win. Includes proverbs, quotations, and brief stories about tea, as well as recipes.
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Shoko-Ken: A Late Medieval Daime Sukiya Style Japanese Tea-House
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Plum tea crazy
\"While viewing the harbor's Gaslights and Galleons Parade from the widow's walk of Timothy Neville's Charleston mansion, local banker Carson Lanier seemingly tumbles over a narrow railing, then plunges three stories to his death. But a tragic accident becomes something much more sinister when it's discovered that the victim was first shot with a bolt from a crossbow. At the request of the mansion owner, Theodosia investigates the tragedy and is soon neck deep in suspects. An almost ex-wife, a coworker, a real estate partner, all had motives for killing the luckless banker, but one resorted to murder to settle accounts\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Shåokåo-ken: a late medieval daime sukiya style Japanese tea-house
The late medieval sukiya tea-house is recognised by scholars and architects as the precursor for the modern and contemporary Japanese architectural tradition. This form is also seen to have contributed significantly to aspects of Western architectural tradition. The daime style is possibly the most distinctively 'Japanese', enigmatic and oldest form located within the sukiya tradition. The work examines the Shoko-ken tea-house, built in 1628, at the Koto-in temple in the precincts of Daitoku-ji monastery in Kyoto. The Shoko-ken is one of the few remaining extant constructions of its type dating from the medieval period and makes claims to the generic model developed by the great tea-master Sen no Rikyu. This study sets out to provide a means of evaluation of the unique yet highly significant form of architecture through the examination of the Shoko-ken as an approach to discern difference and identity between this example and other examples of Sukiya tea-house architecture.
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\Produce More Joppolos\: John Hersey's \A Bell for Adano\ and the Making of the \Good Occupation\
Carruthers uses A Bell for Adano to elucidate the processes of valorization and obfuscation, selective emphasis and strategic ellipsis, through which the good occupation fit-fully took shape during World War II and evolved in its wake. Over several decades in the US, normative understandings of occupation as a generous bequest from occupiers to occupied have acquired an aura of self-evidence and timelessness. This benign conceit obscures what was squalid and self-interested about postwar ordering. It also implies that the radiant halo with which the reconstructive miracles are now encircled was fully apparent to those tasked with making order from postwar chaos.
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