About Agoston Horanyi
I'm currently a doctoral researcher at Cambridge, exploring how commoning practices can inform post-capitalist urban policy – drawing on years of environmental and human rights activism, an interdisciplinary academic path, and my former work as an art & sustainability researcher at Studio Olafur Eliasson. Along the way, I picked up an MSc in Sustainable Development at St Andrews, studied Chinese & French at Durham, and trained in Photography at Kisképző, the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
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In Search of New Wave Tea Culture in Hungary
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Campbell MacPherson
Research Officer and PhD Student, Carers Trust and the University of Glasgow
Alexandra Zhirnova
PhD Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic , University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
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What an interesting read! I would never have considered how much history there is behind tea
Thank you for your kind feedback, Fatima! I'm wanting to explore the topic more in the future — hopefully, I can share new findings before too long.
I think there might be a small mistake here: location is in fact one of the parameters when using the 'All Members' directory.
Sounds super interesting, Agoston! I had no idea that tea сulture in China was only invented recently. I love that you chose puer too - it's definitely special...Back in Kazakhstan, many university students drank several cups of puer per day for its effects :)
Thank you, Nikol! How very nice, it would be fascinating to look into how and when puer tea found its way to places all around the world.
It is important to note, though, that it is not so much tea culture itself that has only recently been invented: it has millenia-old history in China. But when it comes to the kind of ceremony—often referred to as gongfu—that is associated with Chinese tea culture today, it is indeed but an amalgam of different traditional brewing methods. The key is to realise that it is only one way of drinking it and is not at all representative, especially not from a historical point-of-view. : )