Few Articles of Issue No. 9

Taiwanese Teaware's Romantic Movement

Taiwan's unique history and distinctive geography have helped produce its diverse tea industry.... Together with tea, people and water, they create the special flavor of tea drinking and help bring about this elegant experience.

Taiwan's booming tea drinking culture is the strongest in Asia. Common knowledge and widespread use have helped turn teaware use into teaware culture. Matching teaware is not only about pursuing the highest flavor of brewed tea, it has also become an aesthetic pursuit...

Taiwan possesses a rich and varied tea drinking culture, which has helped bring about dramatic growth of local ceramic arts. Artists included Cai XiaoFang, whose expertise extends to all of the multicolored glazed ceramics of the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties...

...Experience and knowledge acquired through their passion for tea has driven them to design and develop new teaware. An example of their contribution can be seen in glass tea sets, ...

... We devote this issue to "teaware", specifically focusing on the teaware of Taiwan. Rich Chinese cultural underpinnings, the wide variety of tea in production, as well as the flourishing growth of Taiwanese indigenous ceramics, and a blossoming new tea culture have all combined to create this Romantic Movement in Taiwanese teaware.