The Perfect Tea Thief with Pam Chun
Under the guise of an inexperienced plant hunter for the British Horticultural Society, a dour Scotsman steals China's secrets of tea production, a brazen act of industrial espionage that devastates China's 5,000 year old civilization. Pam Chun shares her 10-year hunt through the legends and records in China and England to write her historical novel, The Perfect Tea Thief, about this little known episode. It is a tale of deceit and lies, in a country of tradition crumbling under the powers of industrialization and a clash of Empires.
Pam Chun is a veteran storyteller at the Asian and a published, award winning author. Her first novel, The Money Dragon, was named 2002's Best Books of Hawaii. She has been featured on NPR, at the Smithsonian and the National Archives. See her website at www.pamchun.com.
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