20世纪早期亚洲国家茶科技的发展图景——以《远东时报》为中心的考察

Development Vision of Tea Technology in Asia in the Early 20th Century:A Case Study of The Far Eastern Review

《远东时报》由美国记者李亚在1904年于菲律宾创办,其总部后迁入中国上海,逐渐成为当时知名的在华外文刊物。与大多数报刊对茶文化的普及宣传不同,《远东时报》聚焦于茶科技的发明创造和生产应用,其关于20世纪早期亚洲国家茶业新闻的报道,展现出当时这些国家在茶科技领域的发展图景,可以看到印尼、日本、斯里兰卡的茶科技呈竞相追逐之势,而中国茶科技的前进步伐则相对较慢。

The Far Eastern Review,established by American journalist,George Bronson Rea,in the Philippines in 1904,subsequently relocated its headquarters to Shanghai,China.This move allowed the publication to blossom into a prominent foreign language publication in China of its time.Different from the common theme of tea culture promotion in most newspapers and periodicals,The Far Eastern Review focused on reporting about the innovation,production,and application of tea technology.Its reports on tea industry in Asian countries reflected the development vision of these countries in technology during the early 20th century.It can be found that the tea technology in Indonesia,Japan and Sri Lanka were engaged in tense competition,whereas the pace of progress within the Chinese tea technology was relatively slow.