Abstract
Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling Over Dilemmas in China’s Southwest Frontier
Highlights
‘‘People ignore that I am the only legal collector of the ancient tea leaves of Jingmai Mountain’’ (p 38), a Taiwanese tea merchant with plantations in northern Thailand and customers in northern California told Po-yi Hung when they met in Mangjing in Yunnan
The relationships among the Bulang villagers, the tea merchants, the county government, and the tea trees fluctuated with the rise and fall of the price of Pu’er tea on the global market
The more important interaction across social and spatial boundaries is between the poor ethnic-minority Bulang villagers on the one hand, and merchants from Taiwan and China’s prosperous eastern cities on the other
Summary
‘‘People ignore that I am the only legal collector of the ancient tea leaves of Jingmai Mountain’’ (p 38), a Taiwanese tea merchant with plantations in northern Thailand and customers in northern California told Po-yi Hung when they met in Mangjing in Yunnan. With Pu’er tea prices rising, the tea merchant had come to the village in China’s southwest in 2003, solicited by the local county government. The relationships among the Bulang villagers, the tea merchants, the county government, and the tea trees fluctuated with the rise and fall of the price of Pu’er tea on the global market.
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