In this 8th installment of the CHP History of Tea series Laszlo introduces the story of Mr. Robert Fortune. With Britain’s East India Company bankrolling him, Fortune played a most key role in breaking China’s millennia old monopoly of tea manufacturing and export. TERMS FROM THIS EPISODE Shen Nong神农 One of the all time greats in legendary Chinese history. Discovered tea’s pleasures and passed it on to Chinese civilization Yuantou 源头 The fountainhead or source Chaju 茶具 Teaware Guangcai 广彩 A type of colorful porcelain that was a specialty in Guangzhou