Selected Bibliography

General reading in English

author	title	publisher/ publication	year	vol#
Alan/ Iris Macfarlane	Green Gold : the Empire of Tea	Ebury	2003
Denis Bonheure	Tropical Agriculturalist, The: Tea	Macmillan	1990
Di Wang	The Teahouse: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu 1900~1950	Stanford University Press	2008
Francis Leggett & Co.	Tea Leaves	The Project Gutenberg Etext	2002
Ian McDowell, Philip Owuor	Taste of tea, The: What’s in a cup of tea?	New Scientist	1992	1803:30
Jane Pettigrew	Social History Of Tea, A	National Trust	2002
Jason Goodwin	Gunpowder Gardens, The	Chatto & Windus	1990
John Griffiths	Tea — the Drink that Changed the World	Andre Deutsch	2007
Joseph Needham/ Hsing-tsung Huang	Science and Civilization of China, V6: Fermentations and Food Science	Cambridge University Press	2000	Vol. VI:5
Kakuzo Okakura	Book of Tea, The	Stone Bridge Classics 2006 edition	1906
MAI Foundation	Chinese Yixing Teawares	MAI Foundation, The	2000
Mary Lou Heiss, Robert J Heiss	Story of Tea, The — A Cultural History and Drinking Guide	Ten Speed Press	2007
Morgan Pitelka (ed)	Japanese tea culture : art, history, and practice	RoutledgeCurzon	2003
Paul Varley, Kumakura Isao (ed)	Tea in Japan : essays on the history of chanoyu	University of Hawaii Press	1989
Robert Fortune	Journey to the tea countries of China, A	Midmay Books 1987 edition	1852
Roy Moxham	Tea : Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire	Carroll & Graf	2004
The Food and Agriculture Standards Committee, UK	Tea — Preparation of liquor for use in sensory tests BS 6008:1980 / ISO 3103:1980	British Standard	2002	UDC 663.953. 1:620.192. 65/.67
The Palace Museum	Yixing Zisha	Forbidden City Press	2007

Scientific papers in English

Since 2011, we no longer update this following list. All referenced and cited papers are footnoted in the respective article in this site.

author	title	publisher/ publication	year	vol#
CK Chow, P Rao-Melacini, SS Anand	Association of Diet, Exercise, and Smoking Modification With Risk of Early Cardiovascular Events After Acute Coronary Syndromes	Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association	2010	121: 750-758
CS Yang, JD Lambert, S Sang	Antioxidative and anti-carcinogenic activities of tea polyphenols	National Institute of Health, NIH Public Access	2010
Y Matsui, K Kobayashi, H Masuda et al	Quantitative Analysis of Saponins in a Tea-leaf Extract and Their Antihypercholesterolemic Activity	Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry	2009	73 (7): 1513-1519
E Suzuki, T Yorifuji, S Takao et al	Green Tea Consumption and Mortality among Japanese Elderly People: The Prospective Shizuoka Elderly Cohort	Annals of Epidemiology	2009	19:732–739
D Komes, D HoržIć, A Belščak et al	Determination of Caffeine Content in Tea and Maté Tea by using Different Methods	Czech Journal of Food Sciences	2009	27: S213-16
P Baumeister, M Reiter, N Kleinsasser et al	Epigallocatechin-3-gallate reduces DNA damage induced by benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide and cigarette smoke condensate in human mucosa tissue cultures	European Journal of Cancer Prevention	2009	18, 3: 230-235
DR Zhou, YQ Chen, DJ Ni	Effect of water quality on the nutritional components and antioxidant activity of green tea extracts	Food Chemistry	2009	113: 110–114
GW Arendash, T Mori, CH Cao et al	Caffeine Reverses Cognitive Impairment and Decreases Brain Amyloid-beta Levels in Aged Alzheimer’s Disease Mice	Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease	2009	17(3): 661-80
T Unno, C Osada, Y Motoco et al	Dietary Tea Catechins Increase Fecal Energy in Rats	Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology	2009	55: 447-451
JH Parks, JY Jin, WK Baek et al	Ambivalent role of gallated catechins in glucose tolerance in humans: A novel insight into non-absorbable gallated catechin-derived inhibitors of glucose absorption	Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology	2009	60, 4: 101-109
J Suzuki, M Isobe, R Morishita et al	Tea Polyphenols Regulate Key Mediators on Inflammatory Cardiovascular Diseases	Mediators of Inflammation	2009	Article ID 494928
J Söhle, A Knott, U Holtzmann et al	White Tea extract induces lipolytic activity and inhibits adipogenesis in human subcutaneous (pre)-adipocytes	Nutrition & Metabolism	2009	6:20
DB Panagiotakos, C Lionis, A Zeimbekis et al	Long-Term Tea Intake is Associated with Reduced Prevalence of (Type 2) Diabetes Mellitus among Elderly People from Mediterranean Islands: MEDIS Epidemiological Study	Yonsei Medical Journal	2009	50(1): 31–38
HT Zhu, CR Yang, Y Li et al	Advances on the Research of Microbes during the Post-fermentative Process of Pu-Er Tea	Acta Botanica Yunnanica	2008	30 (6): 718~724
D Neves, M Assunção, F Marques et al	Does regular consumption of green tea influence expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptor in aged rat erectile tissue? Possible implications for vasculogenic erectile dysfunction progression	Age	2008	30: 217–228
AR Cameron, S Anton, L Melville et al	Black tea polyphenols mimic insulin/insulin-like growth factor-1 signaling to the longevity factor FOXO1a	Aging Cell	2008	7
PV Anandh Babu, D Liu	Green Tea Catechins and Cardiovascular Health: An Update	Current Medicinal Chemistry	2008	15: 1840-1850
E Malinowska, I Inkielewicz, W Czarnowski et al	Assessment of fluoride concentration and daily intake by human from tea and herbal infusions	Food and Chemical Toxicology	2008	46: 1055–1061
KY Syu, CL Lin, HC Huang et al	Determination of Theanine, GABA, and Other Amino Acids in Green, Oolong, Black, and Pu-erh Teas with Dabsylation and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	2008	56: 7637–7643
Y Cheng, T Huynh-Ba, I Blank et al	Temporal Changes in Aroma Release of Longjing Tea Infusion: Interaction of Volatile and Nonvolatile Tea Components and Formation of 2-Butyl-2-octenal upon Aging	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	2008	56 (6): 2160–2169
G Santana-Rios, GA Orner, MR Xu et al	Inhibition by White Tea of 2-Amino-1-Methyl-6-Phenylimidazo[4,5- b]Pyridine-Induced Colonic Aberrant Crypts in the F344 Rat	National Institute of Health, NIH Public Access	2008
M Bose, JD Lambert, J Ju et al	The Major Green Tea Polyphenol, (−)-Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate, Inhibits Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Fatty Liver Disease in High-Fat–Fed Mice	National Institute of Health, NIH Public Access	2008
MC Venables, CJ Hulston, HR Cox et al	Green tea extract ingestion, fat oxidation, and glucose tolerance in healthy humans	The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition	2008	87:778–84
KC Maki, MS Reeves, M Farmer et al	Green Tea Catechin Consumption Enhances Exercise-Induced Abdominal Fat Loss in Overweight and Obese Adults	The Journal of Nutrition	2008	0022-3166
Taiyokagaku Co., Ltd	Sleep Improving Composition	European Patent Application EP1743633	2007	EP20050727560
KC Jeng, CS Chen, YP Fang	Effect of Microbial Fermentation on Content of Statin, GABA, and Polyphenols in Pu-Erh Tea	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	2007	55: 8787–8792
J Wright, F Wulfert, J Hort et al	Effect of Preparation Conditions on Release of Selected Volatiles in Tea Headspace	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	2007	55: 1445−1453
DJ Yang, LS Hwang, JT Lin	Effects of different steeping methods and storage on caffeine, catechins and gallic acid in bag tea infusions	Journal of Chromatography	2007	1156: 312–320
CL Lin, HC Huang, JK Lin	Theaflavins attenuate hepatic lipid accumulation through activating AMPK in human HepG2 cells	Journal of Lipid Research	2007	86:54
M Boschmann, F Thielecke	The Effects of Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate on Thermogenesis and Fat Oxidation in Obese Men: A Pilot Study	Journal of the American College of Nutrition	2007	26, 4: 389S–395S
Ian T Johnson	Phytochemicals and cancer	Proceedings of the Nutrition Society	2007	66: 207–215
U.S. Department of Agriculture	USDA Database for the Flavonoid Content of Selected Foods	U.S. Department of Agriculture	2007	release 2.1
S Kuriyama, T Shimazu, K Ohmori et al	Green Tea Consumption and Mortality Due to Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, and All Causes in Japan (The Ohsaki Study)	Journal of American Medical Association	2006	Vol 296, No. 10: 1255~60
S Kuriyama, A Hozawa, K Ohmori et al	Green tea consumption and cognitive function: a cross-sectional study from the Tsurugaya Project	The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition	2006	83:355–61
C Cabrera, R Artacho, R Gime ́nez	Beneficial Effects of Green Tea—A Review	Journal of the American College of Nutrition	2006	25 (2): 79–99
T Nagao, Y Komine, S Soga et al	Ingestion of a tea rich in catechins leads to a reduction in body fat and malondialdehyde-modified LDL in men	The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition	2005	81:122-9
J. Peterson, J. Dwyer et al	Major flavonoids in dry tea	Journal of Food Composition and Analysis	2005	18: 487–501
IA Hakim, RB Harris, HHS Chow et al	Effect of a 4-Month Tea Intervention on Oxidative DNA Damage among Heavy Smokers: Role of Glutathione S-Transferase Genotypes	Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention	2004	13: 242–249
Food Standards Agency, UK	Survey of Caffeine Levels in Hot Beverages	Food Standards Agency, UK	2004	53/04
Y Sawai, Y Yamaguchi, J Tanaka	Methyl Anthranilate is the Cause of Cultivar-Specific Aroma in the Japanese Tea Cultivar ‘Sofu’	Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly	2004	38 (4): 271 – 274
Y Lu, WF Guo, XQ Yang	Fluoride content in tea and its relationship with tea quality	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	2004	52(14): 4472-6
Eisei Nishitani, Yuko M. Sagesaka	Simultaneous determination of catechins, caffeine and other phenolic compounds in tea using new HPLC method	Journal of Food Composition and Analysis	2004	17: 675–685
V Crespy, G Williamson	A Review of the Health Effects of Green Tea Catechins in In Vivo Animal Models	The Journal of Nutrition	2004	134: 3431S–3440S
U.S. Department of Agriculture	USDA National Fluoride Database of Selected Beverages and Foods	U.S. Department of Agriculture	2004
CN Chen, CM Liang, JR Lai et al	Capillary Electrophoretic Determination of Theanine, Caffeine, and Catechins in Fresh Tea Leaves and Oolong Tea and Their Effects on Rat Neurosphere Adhesion and Migration	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	2003	51: 7495−7503
YS Lin, YJ Tsai, JS Tsay et al	Factors affecting the levels of tea polyphenols and caffeine in tea leaves	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	2003	26; 51(7):1864-73
JD Lambert, CS Yang	Mechanisms of Cancer Prevention by Tea Constituents	The Journal of Nutrition	2003	133: 3262S-3267S
MJS Charrier, GP Savage, L Vanhanen	Oxalate content and calcium binding capacity of tea and herbal teas	Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition	2002	11(4): 298–301
N Li, X Chen, J Liao et al	Inhibition of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA)-induced oral carcinogenesis in hamsters by tea and curcumin	Carcinogenesis	2002	23 (8): 1307-1313
KJ Mukamal, M Maclure, JE Muller et al	Tea Consumption and Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction	Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association	2002	105: 2476
YG Zuo, H Chen, YW Deng	Simultaneous determination of catechins, caffeine and gallic acids in green, Oolong, black and pu-erh teas using HPLC with a photodiode array detector	Talanta	2002	57: 307–316
JA Lai, WC Yang, JY Hsiao	An assessment of genetic relationships in cultivated tea clones and native wild tea in Taiwan using RAPD and ISSR markers	Botanical Studies	2001	42: 93-100
LK Han, Y Kimura, M Kawashima, et al	Anti-obesity effects in rodents of dietary teasaponin, a lipase inhibitor	International Journal of Obesity	2001	25: 1459–1464
G Santana-Riosa, GA Ornera, A Amantana	Potent antimutagenic activity of white tea in comparison with green tea in the Salmonella assay	Mutation Research	2001	495: 61–74
S Trevisanato, YI Kim	Tea and Health	Nutrition Reviews	2000	58: 1~10
John H Weisburger	Antimutagens, anticarcinogens, and effective worldwide cancer prevention	Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology	1999	18 (2): 85-93
AG Dulloo, C Duret, D Rohrer et al	Efficacy of a green tea extract rich in catechin polyphenols and caffeine in increasing 24-h energy expenditure and fat oxidation in humans	The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition	1999	70:1040–5
J Cao, XX Bai, Y Zhao et al	The Relationship of Fluorosis and Brick Tea Drinking in Chinese Tibetans	Environmental Health Perspectives	1996	104, 12
N Togari, A Kobayashi, T Aishima	Pattern recognition applied to gas chromatographic profiles of volatile components in three tea categories	Food Research International	1995	28 (5): 495-502
A Hossain, M Furuichi, Y Yone	POV, TBA, 3 HUFA and Nutritive Value of Scrap Meal Fermented with Aspergillus glaucus	Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi	1988	54(8): 1391-1394
BO Eggum, B Pedersen, I Jacobsen	The influence of dietary tea, coffee and cocoa on protein and energy utilization of soya-bean meal and barley in rats	British Journal of Nutrition	1983	50: 197-205
Muneyuki Nakagawa	Chemical Components and Taste of Green Tea	Tea Technology Division, National Research Institute of Tea, Japan	1975