Puer Starbucks!

Andrew Walker - 14 Mar, 2007

This is not quite the “Yunnan Fringe” that Nicholas has been writing about (and lots more to come). In fact it is very much Yunnan central, but with strong links to the rural periphery. ANU PhD student Jinghong Zhang snapped this shot of an upmarket puer tea shop in Kunming. For an outline of Jinghong’s puer tea research go here.

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