Vol. 2024 No. 2 (2024)
Articles

The Other, the Hobby, the Sign: a study of tea culture in British literature

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  • Eleanor Whitfield,
  • Sophia Lee
Eleanor Whitfield
Flat 4, 22 Kensington Gardens Square, London, W2 3UW, UK
Sophia Lee
The Old Vicarage, 45 Church Road, Cambridge, CB1 1JG, UK

Published 29-07-2024

Keywords

  • British Literature,
  • British Tea Culture,
  • Hybridity,
  • Third Space

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Abstract

The phenomenon of tea and tea culture in British literature contains traces of the reinterpretation and rewriting of the imported Chinese tea culture by British native culture, which is of great significance for the derivation of a unique British tea culture. In British literature, the cultural identity of tea has been successively constructed as an exotic luxury, a luxurious necessity, and a ritualized beverage, or in short, the other, the hobby, and the sign. The fluid change in the identity of tea is attributed to the openness of the cultural differences between China and the UK. In an open situation, British culture gazes and desires Chinese tea, eventually possessing and assimilating it. Tea is also mixed into the British dietary structure and social culture from top to bottom, and finally transcends the cultural differences between China and the UK, generating a new meaning and constructing an independent British tea culture.

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