From Chinese Tea to British Tea

What’s in a Cup of Tea?

In this event we will take you on a cultural journey from Chinese tea to British tea, to find out that in a cup of tea, there is culture, history, energy, sharing and communicating, there is our relationship with the nature, with the past, and with each other.

It also allows us to see the intertwined fate of the two tea-drinking nations and offer a rare lens for the two countries to stop viewing each other as a see-saw shift of rise and fall, but a Yin-Yang nexus of inspiring and complementing each other as equals, while depending on each other to form an organic whole.

2pm – 2:45pm

Public Talk: From Chinese Tea to English Tea 
by Dr. Sunny Xin Liu, Director of the Research Center for China’s Heritage Studies; Director of Confucius Institute at the University of Lancashire

2:45pm – 3pm

Meet the illustrator and comic writer Eddy Nicholls, who created the picture booklet of ‘Cha from China’ with Sunny Liu, as a sister copy of the comic book of ‘Tea on Tea’
Complimentary copies available at the event.

3pm – 4pm

Tea Time: sample different kinds of Chinese tea with biscuits and Chinese snacks.