The Tao of Tea
Lecture by David Lee Hoffman with tea ceremony performed by Kathi Wong
Saturday, September 25, 2004, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
CCC Auditorium

 

In conjunction with the current exhibition "Purple Sand, Fragrant Tea: Contemporary Yixing Master Works" at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Mr. David Lee Hoffman, owner of the Silk Road Teas company, will give a lecture on Chinese tea.  Following the lecture, Ms. Kathi Wong will conduct a demonstration of a traditional Chinese tea ceremony.

David Lee Hoffman has been traveling the remote backcountry of Asia for more than thirty years seeking out the world's finest rare, organic, and wild pure leaf teas.  He established Silk Road Teas in 1992 in order to share these teas with the Western world where many of the teas were seen for the first time.  Mr. Hoffman is currently writing a book on tea with the working title of "Teas on the Silk Road."  The book is being published by Ten Speed Press in Berkeley, California in the spring of 2005.

Kathi Wong has spent a number of years visiting the teahouses in her native Hong Kong and in Taiwan.  She has elevated the process of making tea into a high art.  Ms. Wong's tea ceremony is based on her study of the ancient Chinese Book of Tea, written during the Tang Dynasty.

For more information about the lecture and exhibition, please call (415) 986-1822.

 

 

This lecture will be given in English.

Admission is Free