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Matthew Stedman

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T4 Homework; The Human Stain (Coaxing with Peaches)

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Dressing up schoolwork as a toy. It’s such a hoary old cliché it might just work. I’m hoping to coax out some actual written words from my students by inviting them to play with the paper itself; dirty it up...
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Reaching Out to All You Coffee Lovers

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So you drink coffee? Fair enough. You’re not alone. It’s an easy mistake to make. There’s plenty of time to remedy your error. If you’re reading this here in China, you have ample opportunity to switch yourself on to a...
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To Malacca and Back; The Greatest Contribution of the British

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You’re familiar with the rule by now. Do not carry your own liquids allowed into the airport departure lounge.  … except that I was drinking an awesome green tea I’d brought with me from China. And no one was asking...
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Sipping Not Gorging; For a Chocolate-Shaped Cavity

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If there’s one food that’s emblematic of everyday indulgence, that’s chocolate. Delicious for most of us yet inextricably connected with fat, sugar (and caffeine, if you’re worried about that).  When my 4-year old daughter went for her second tooth-filling last month,...
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Leaky Logic; How Britain Tried to Ruin the Teapot

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The tea was oolong, with just a hint of Formosa-perfume-tanginess. Or was it a hint of detergent? Anyway, this was a nice restaurant, too nice for pouring spilt water onto the floor.  This was a rare lunch with my teenage...
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Harmless Scum; the DVD on the Tea

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Tea is supposed to be zero calories. So what is this shiny slick on the surface of yesterday’s drink? It’s like the blue-brown façades of blocks in China’s fourth tier. It’s like a rolled scarab carapace. It’s like the squeezed...
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Free Americano; For 7 Days of Hard Labour

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I would normally have said no. But I was all out of tea that day. Actually, I welcomed that big cup of coffee after another poor night’s sleep. The drink was ice cold, mercifully unsweetened and wrapped in the green...
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Safe Drinking Water? Developing Tea is the Best Kind of Tea

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Among the anecdotal indicators of a country’s being developing or developed is the availability of drinkable tap water.  A developing nation which has laid down the world’s most extensive railway network can add safe water pipes to that in record...
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About Me

Matthew Stedman has spent years living and working in China. He has sold Chinese tea in the UK, and loves discussing the miraculous leaf with new (and suspicious) audiences. He however never feels happier than when researching the product here in beautiful South China. Email him via matthew@thenanjinger.com Matthew Stedman在中国生活工作了多年。多年在 中英两国从事茶叶贸易的他，喜欢和新读者讨论神 奇的东方树叶(虽然有时他的读者保持怀疑态度)。 没什么比在美丽的江南走访品尝各种茶叶更让他开 心的事了。
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