Sensorial Place-Making in Ethnic Minority Areas: The Consumption of Forest Puer Tea in Contemporary China

Ma, Zhen

doi:10.1080/14442213.2018.1486453

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“…The distinction between ancient and terrace not only pertains to the relative height of the tea trees but also represents the cultural and economic values of the two kinds of Pu'er tea. Ancient Pu'er tea is considered by tea merchants and connoisseurs to be superior to terrace tea because of its organic aura and its taste (Hung 2013;Ma 2018;Zhang 2014).…”

Section: The Bulang and The Pu'er Tea Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As one of the most sought-after teas in China, ancient Pu'er tea has surpassed the status of an ordinary beverage. Obsessed with the authenticity of the tea, many consumers trace its taste, aroma, and other sensorial attributes back to its place of origin (Ma 2018). Ancient tea provides less than a quarter of Man's tea yield, yet it elevates the reputation of all the tea from the village.…”

Section: Encountering Uncertainties and Taking Risksmentioning

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Uncertainty, Risk, and Merit-Making

Ma¹

2021

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The rising importance of the tea business among the Bulang people of Yunnan province, Southwest China, is intimately linked to Theravada Buddhist ideologies and practices. Non-reciprocal merit-making provides a sense of control, and this is particularly important in an increasingly uncertain economic environment. More and more people were ready to engage in high-risk trading, and new rituals emerged precisely at a time when profit margins increased rapidly. The reinvention of local rituals helped people to control risk-taking and to morally legitimize ambiguous market behavior. The result is strong synergies between the ways uncertainty and risk are being addressed in the tea economy and in local religious practice: economic processes are changing religious practices just as much as religious practices are making a difference in economic behavior.

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Section: The Bulang and The Pu'er Tea Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Encountering Uncertainties and Taking Risksmentioning

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Uncertainty, Risk, and Merit-Making

Ma¹

2021

Social Analysis

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“…We specifically go to Devon to buy fish." (Sen 2016, p. 72) A number of studies have now shown how an individual's memory of a specific place is interlinked with the senses (Seremetakis 1994;Sutton 2010), and this connection between a place, memory, and our senses led to the development of a sensorial placemaking theory (Ma 2018).…”

Section: Key Themes From the Data Describing The Placemaking Processmentioning

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Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Placemaking

Ellery¹,

Ellery

Borkowsky³

2020

Int. Journal of Com. WB

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Historically, planners, community development groups, and other place-engaged organizations and practitioners have worked to elevate the importance of place and placemaking in economically, socially, and environmentally responsible development. However, recent studies have presented the concept of placemaking from professionally different perspectives using a variety of definitions to both rationalize and operationalize this still somewhat nebulous concept. This ambiguity surrounding the term placemaking is further compounded by the use of three different types of spellings for the term in the research literature, with none of the spellings having a clear, consistent, or universally accepted definition aligned to it. Without a common understanding of placemaking as a concept, or how placemaking works theoretically, measuring the value or impact placemaking has as a process on community development is conjectural. The purpose of this article is to provide a review of the academic research literature related to placemaking over the past 5 years, describe the current state of placemaking as a concept based on the issues raised in past literature, identify key theoretical principles that consistently support placemaking as it is being used in the research literature, and then use these principles to propose a theoretical model describing how placemaking works as a process. The theoretical model proposed in this work is offered for further examination, description, and testing and as a foundation for future research on the role placemaking plays in community development professional practice.

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“…assamica, is one of the main tea varieties in China that originated from Yunnan Province and is mainly cultivated in ethnic minority areas . The earliest record of Pu-erh tea was in Ming Dynasty and it had become a popular commodity in the mid-1990s with the emergence of terraced fields . Nowadays, Pu-erh tea is one of the most popular and widely consumed tea products in the world .…”

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Variation in Volatile Compounds of Raw Pu-Erh Tea upon Steeping Process by Gas Chromatography–Ion Mobility Spectrometry and Characterization of the Aroma-Active Compounds in Tea Infusion Using Gas Chromatography–Olfactometry–Mass Spectrometry

Feng

Sun

Wang

et al. 2022

J. Agric. Food Chem.

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Steeping process is an important factor for aroma release of tea, which has rarely been investigated for the aroma changes of raw Pu-erh tea (RAPT). In addition, the comprehensive aroma characteristics identification of RAPT infusion is necessary. In this study, GC−IMS coupled with principal component analysis (PCA) was used to clarify the difference of volatile profiles during the steeping process of RAPT. Furthermore, the volatiles contained in the RAPT infusion were extracted by three pretreatment methods (HS-SPME, SBSE, and SAFE) and identified using GC−O−MS. According to the odor activity value, 28 of 66 compounds were categorized as aroma-active compounds. Aroma recombination and omission experiments showed that "fatty", "green", "fruity", and "floral" are considered to be the main aroma attributes of RAPT infusion with a strong relationship with 1octen-3-one, 1-octen-3-ol, (E)-2-octenal, β-ionone, linalool, etc. This study will contribute a better understanding of the mechanism of the RAPT steeping process and volatile generation.

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Sensorial Place-Making in Ethnic Minority Areas: The Consumption of Forest Puer Tea in Contemporary China

Cited by 13 publications

References 24 publications

Uncertainty, Risk, and Merit-Making

Uncertainty, Risk, and Merit-Making

Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Placemaking

Variation in Volatile Compounds of Raw Pu-Erh Tea upon Steeping Process by Gas Chromatography–Ion Mobility Spectrometry and Characterization of the Aroma-Active Compounds in Tea Infusion Using Gas Chromatography–Olfactometry–Mass Spectrometry

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