EDITORIAL / NOVEMBER 2009 (ISSUE 9) OTHER EDITORIALS Anniversaries are, of course, a traditional time to take stock, find your bearings, make predictions about future directions. On the occasion of our second anniversary issue, I felt this would be a…

EDITORIAL / MAY 2009 (ISSUE 7) OTHER EDITORIALS Normally, the process for choosing a cover image for an upcoming issue of Cha is quite straightforward, and my co-editor and I come to a consensus without much trouble. This time, however, the selection proved more…

EDITORIAL / FEBRUARY 2009 (ISSUE 6) OTHER EDITORIALS For a few days following the incident at Cambridge University in which a young German protestor threw a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiaboa, the small thread of the web that originates…

EDITORIAL / NOVEMBER 2008 (ISSUE 5) OTHER EDITORIALS Recently my Hong Kong-born co-editor has developed a series of strange new habits, or, perhaps more accurately, several symptoms of the same habit. Her new quirks include buying instant noodles in bulk,…

EDITORIAL / AUGUST 2008 (ISSUE 4) OTHER EDITORIALS [See contributors’ photographs taken when they were young here.] The cover of this issue features two family photos, one taken in Hong Kong, one in mainland China. There is a striking formality…

Editorial / May 2008 (Issue 3) OTHER EDITORIALS In the first major treatise on the subject of tea Chajing (The Classic of Tea) (8th century), Lu Yu categorized the different varieties of the drink by name: When tea has a sweet flavour, it…