Katharine Burnett represented UC Davis’ Global Tea
Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science (for
which she is the Founding Director) with a booth at the International Tea Fair in
Xiamen, China on October 22-24, 2016. The Xiamen Tea Fair is
arguably the world’s largest annual tea fair (1 million square
feet of displays). At the fair, Katharine met experts, scholars
and collectors active in the tea industry and promoted the new UC
Davis initiative on the study of tea.