Writer:

Lisa See is an American writer and novelist. Her novel, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (2017), is a powerful story about circumstances, culture, and distance. It paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond of family.(R.1)

Lisa See was born in Paris. Her mother was also a writer and novelist. See was West Coast correspondent for Publishers Weekly (1983–1996). Her paternal great-grandfather was Chinese, making her one-eighth Chinese. This has had a great impact on her life and work.

She spent her childhood hanging out at her great-grandfather’s antique store in Los Angeles’s Chinatown. With her red hair and pale freckled skin, you’d never pick her out to be even an eighth Chinese, but she is, and the Chinese side of her family embraced her and provided her the stability she needed growing up. Her mother, the exceptional writer Carolyn See, struggled in 1960s Los Angeles to gain the recognition she deserved. Not easy for a writer far from the established east coast book world and especially difficult as a woman. Money was tight, and See’s family had to move often, forcing her to change schools each time. Her father left and then a stepfather didn’t last long. But throughout, her Chinatown life continued unchanged: lunch at the little noodle shop with her grandmother; playing in the arms of a giant statue of Buddha. learning to wash and cook rice without a measuring cup. No wonder See found her literary home there. And no wonder her books in some way explore the nature of mothers and daughters. Her mother was the other constant in her life. See said she remembers her mother more than once talking to an editor on the phone, hanging up, and crying from the rejection. She didn’t begin publishing until See was 12. She gave all her work to her daughter to read. Maybe See was too young to comment on the intricacies of the plot, but she became a wonderful editor for repeated words and redundancies and — in a very Chinese way — under the tutelage of her mother, began a lifelong apprenticeship. What better gift from one established writer to another?(R.2)

Story:

It begins with a remote indigenous hill tribe, the Akha, in present day, still living exactly as it did a hundred years earlier. The Cultural Revolution gave them a school teacher — he was banished there for his liberal leanings — and he, together with the girl’s mother, change the protagonist Li-yan’s life.(R.2)

In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generations—until a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep, the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen.

The stranger’s arrival marks the first entrance of the modern world in the lives of the Akha people. Slowly, Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, begins to reject the customs that shaped her early life. When she has a baby out of wedlock—conceived with a man her parents consider a poor choice—she rejects the tradition that would compel her to give the child over to be killed, and instead leaves her, wrapped in a blanket with a tea cake tucked in its folds, near an orphanage in a nearby city.

As Li-yan comes into herself, leaving her insular village for an education, a business, and city life, her daughter, Haley, is raised in California by loving adoptive parents. Despite her privileged childhood, Haley wonders about her origins. Across the ocean Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. Over the course of years, each searches for meaning in the study of Pu’er, the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for centuries.(R.3)

In the very beginning, it seems that we are in ancient China but you qickly realize that the story is happening in modern times. The novel follows a young girl, Li-yan, into adulthood. Li-yan is from one of China’s mountain tribes, one of the ethnic minorities, the Akha. As we follow Li-yan we learn about the Mountain Culture, Traditions, and of course- Tea. The beginning of the book gives a lot of information about the traditions, rituals, and beliefs of the Akha. It turns a bit dark during the birth of twins into the village. This event is a turning point for Li-yan, as she is only 10 when she witnesses the birth. From this point she struggles with the traditions of her family and her desire to see what else is out there.

The story also discusses mainstream Chinese culture and focuses a lot on the one child policy that was in place for over 20 years. While the minority cultures were essentially exempt from the policy, it became an important part of the story when Li-yan becomes pregnant out of wedlock and she and her mother secretly give the child up for adoption, leaving her at an orphanage with nothing except a blanket and a 50+ year old tea cake that will one day “lead the child home”. This opens a whole new world to the story as the child is adopted by an American family. Part of the story then follows Haley as she grows up and struggles with her identity as a Chinese American in a white family.

The story goes back and forth between Li-yan and Haley. We watch as Li-yan’s village meets an important tea connoisseur and life improves due to his generosity. Later, she gets accepted into a prestigious Tea Academy (thanks to him) and becomes successful in the Puerh business. Even after finding success, she struggles with the desire to find the child she gave up so many years ago. We follow Haley as she grows up from infancy, as a young girl, a teenager, and into adulthood.

We get to witness Li-yan fall in love with a Han Majority man, even though she is sure she never wants to be in love again. The two have ups and downs but end up happily married with a son. Her new husband tries to help her find her daughter but it seems futile. During this, Haley is beginning to discover her roots and is curious about the mother that gave her up. The two miss each other on multiple occasions and it isn’t until the VERY END that the two come face to face thanks to a mutual acquaintance with his own interesting story to tell.(R.10)

In the remote Chinese village called Spring Well Village, an Akha family goes about farming tea. The book is centered on Li-yan who is referred to as Girl by her family. She is smart and her teacher Teacher Zhang asks that she be allowed to continue her education to what we would refer to as middle school in America at the age of twelve.  She will continue to farm tea and learn to be a midwife from her A-ma or mother who is known throughout the region for her talents.

She falls in love with San-pa but both of their parents are against the marriage because of the animal each was born under and because of the trouble the two got into as children over a stolen pancake and cause the children to go out of balance with the world meaning that they will need to go through a cleansing ritual.  San-pa promises to go to Thailand to earn money enough to marry her and she will take the test to go to university.  But things change when Mr. Huang arrives from Hong Kong looking to make Puer tea. He is interested in the tea from Third Brothers tea trees that no one has been harvesting from to sell because they were seen as inferior. He also wants wild tea and some special tea trees that he has heard about.  Li-yan and her A-ma know he means her tea trees that are thousands of years old.  No man is allowed on the land and will die if they do go on it. The place is considered cursed and the tea is considered worthless.  Li-yan makes two tea cakes from the tea trees from her grove and sells them to him hoping to have the money for her and San-pa.

Li-yan finds out that she is pregnant which wouldnt be a problem if San-pa were here and could marry her, but he isnt.  If she is discovered to be pregnant with a child she would be banished from the village forever.  Her A-ma and her hide the pregnancy and when she goes into labor they go to the grove to have the baby. Even though her A-ma isnt supposed to deliver her daughters baby because it could cause the death of the men in the family she breaks Akha Law.  But instead of killing the child like they are supposed to Li-yan walks into the big town and leaves the baby girl outside of the orphanage with a tea cake from her grove strapped to her, once more breaking Akha Law.

When San-pa comes back to ask for her hand they get married and head to the orphanage to collect their daughter but she has already been adopted by an American couple.  They leave and go to Thailand.  Things dont work out the way she wants them to, but she cant go back to her village so she goes to trade school and gets a job in the city and learns the ways of Puer tea.

Her daughter, Haley, grows up wandering about her and what the tea cake means.  Her life isnt easy being a child from two worlds and being pushed hard to do so much and succeed.  She spends her life searching for the mother who gave her away while Li-yan continues to search for the daughter she lost. (R.11)

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See.

The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: See, Lisa. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. Scribner, 2017. First Scribner hardcover edition.

The novel begins in Spring Well Village, where a young Li-yan joins her family for breakfast. Each son tells their dreams, which A-ma, Li-yans mother, interprets as she does every morning over breakfast for the family. She then asks Li-yan to tell her dream. However, the young girl lies, as her real dream was filled with bad omens.

The family then goes to pick tea and sell it at the market two hours away. However, they arrive late, and are only able to sell for half the price. While at market, Li-yan meets a pancake stealing boy named San-pa, who gives her a bite of his pancake. She is then blamed for stealing it, and must go through a ritual to cleanse her sins.

Weeks later, Li-yan joins her A-ma at the birth of Deh-ja’s baby. However, the labor goes very poorly, and Deh-ja ends up giving birth to twins which are considered human rejects in their village. The babies are killed and she and her husband are exiled from the village, which Li-yan does not understand.

Twelve days later, Li-yan goes to school where she has achieved the highest grade of her family. After listening to a lecture of Teacher Zhang, she goes home where A-ma shows her the grove she owns. It is an old tree of leaves that the men of the family believe is cursed. Li-yan is not very impressed, and convinces Teacher Zhang to help her tell the others in her tribe that she wants to continue her schooling. After many conversations, he is finally able to convince the town elders to let her continue. When Li-yan gets to her new, second-tier school, she sees San-pa, the only other Akha there.

In September, the tribe celebrates the swing festival, where young girls and boys are encouraged to make love to each other to prepare for marriage. Li-yan is enamored with San-pa, and he is the only boy she will sleep with during the festival. Her family, however, hates San-pa, believing him to be a terrible match for her. He leaves, promising to return and find her at university.

Some day later, Mr. Huang arrives in the village. He wants to use the tribes leaves to make a rare tea called Pu’er, and promises to pay them 10 times as much as they make at the normal marketplace if they let him. The tribe helps him gather the leaves. Li-yan sells her leaves from the grove without telling A-ma. However, after being gone for so long, Li-yan has lost her chance to continue her schooling. She also learns that she is pregnant, and a baby born out of wedlock with no father to claim it is considered a human reject. Li-yan and A-ma go to the grove to birth the baby and plan to kill it. However, A-ma lets the little girl live and tells Li-yan to go to Menghai and leave the baby at the orphanage. Li-yan takes the three-day trip to save her daughter, leaving a headdress and a tea cake with the baby.

Mr. Huang returns for more tea as Li-yan struggles with losing her daughter. A-ma discovers that Li-Yan has sold leaves from their grove. This leads her family to ignore her and she ends up sleeping under the house with the animals. Suddenly, San-pa returns, they marry, and head for Thailand. She tells him about her missing daughter and they go to the orphanage where they learn their daughter has been adopted and sent to America. They go to a village in Thailand where they live in poverty. San-pa becomes addicted to heroin and Li-yan runs to leave him. He finds her in the woods and gives his life to kill a tiger that would have killed her.

She returns to his home to tell his family, before going to her grove where A-ma meets her. Unable to go back to her village, A-ma takes Li-yan to Teacher Zhang who sends her to Kunming for trade school. Meanwhile, we learn that Li-yans daughter, named Haley, has survived a dangerous disease, and is going to make a wonderful recovery.

The reader then reads eight years of letters between Haley’s mother Constance and Haley’s grandmother. They detail Haley’s life growing up as well as their induction into a group called Families with Children from China. Haley does well in school, but when she gives a cultural presentation, she focuses on her arrival from China instead of the history of her adopted parents. This makes constance question if Haley feels like a part of the family. Haleys family supports her wanting to find her birth mother.

Meanwhile, a 26-year-old Li yan prepares for an interview for a prestigious tea program. At first, the interview does not go well until Tea Master Sun arrives. Li-yan attempts to impress him, but leaves unsure if she is going to get the spot. She heads home for a few weeks and learns that her village has been changed by technology and tea production. Only A-ma follows all the traditions. Her family all tell her that they do not believe Li-yan should be alone, and A-ma tells her that Li-yan will find someone to marry soon.

When Li-yan returns to Kunming, she learns that she has been accepted into two tea programs. She studies directly under Tea Master Sun. After 12 months, she joins an unknown partner and starts her own shop called Midnight Blossoms in Guangzhou. She develops a reputation for being fair and honest. Months later, she meets a woman named Mrs. Chang. The two develop a friendship and Mrs. Chang asks to introduce Li-yan to her son Jin. Although Li-yan is initially hesitant, she eventually falls in love with him.

Meanwhile, Haley begins to grow up, and is currently in the fifth grade.

Mr. Huang arrives at the tea shop, asking to catch up even though Li-yan is not interesting in speaking with him. A few weeks later, Jin takes Li-yan to a colonial house and proposes to her. They talk for a while about their pasts and she agrees to marry him. They ask Ci-teh to run Midnight Blossoms while they go on their honeymoon. They have an Akha wedding and then head to America where they buy a home and move in. Ci-teh is doing great business, so they decide to stay. However, when the price of Pu’er plummets, Li-yan learns that Midnight Blossoms has been marked as selling counterfeit. She returns to learn that Ci-teh has lied to her. She goes to Spring Well to confront Ci-teh. After the two argue in front of the village, it is ruled that Ci-teh was in the wrong and she is exiled from the village.

Jin and Li-yan goes to the orphanage and learn her daughter was sent to Hollywood. While there, Li-yan finds Deh-ja and picks her up as a helper who can take care of Li-yan during her pregnancy.

Meanwhile, Haley attends group therapy for Chinese adoptees as she is struggling with bullying and feelings toward her adoptive parents.

Jin, Li-yan and their family return to Spring Well Village to help with the production of new tea leaves. She asks A-ma to help deliver her baby, but A-ma disagrees and tells her to have the baby in America. Midnight Blossoms reopens as a success, and they leave Jin’s mother to run it while they head to America. There, Li-yan has her baby, who she names Paul in American, and Jin-ba in Akha.

Haley writes a story about herself and her experience with her parents. She talks about her life as an adopted child and how her parents took her to China when she no longer wanted to go. She enjoys her time there, but learns little about her birth mother.

Meanwhile, Paul, Li-yan’s child, is having night terrors, believing he is drowning in a monsoon. Li-yan blames herself as she has been complaining about how the weather is affecting her tea. Li-Yan is now 37 and Jin has come to terms with his previous relationship with his father. The price of Pu’er has gone up again. Ci-teh has changed her land to coffee, but the novel does not say if she is successful. Li-yan tries to find her daughter, but is unsuccessful.

During this same time, Haley exchanges e-mails with her professor where she explains that a man named Sean is willing to take her to the origin of Pu’er.

Later, Li-yan meets with Mr. Huang and learns that his son was saved from bone cancer by the leaves of her grove. He wants to find it before other connoisseurs do, as he believes it can save future generations of his family because they are predispositioned for the cancer. Jin and Li-yan travel to Spring Well Village where she confronts A-ma and tells her that the grove is in danger.

The narration then changes to Haley who is preparing to leave for China to discover how to create Pu’er and where it came from. She meets Sean on the plan and the two explore many different cities to understand how the tea is made. Haley realizes she likes Sean and the two sleep together before traveling to Spring Well Village. When there, Haley shows her tea cake to the tribe. A-ma promptly steals it and runs away. Haley chases her up to the grove where she meets a woman who she immediately knows is her birth mother, Li-yan.(R.20)

Highlights vs self- reflection:

1.p.261:We Akha believe that every human lives and dies nine times before becoming a special kind of spirit.

2.p.442.Ci-the does not suffer from a spirit affliction. Everything she has done has come from her own hands, heart, and mind

3.p.198: I’m like a leaf that’s fallen from its home branch and now spirals down, down, down, floating out over a cliff, buffeted by winds, shredded out of existence.

4.p.271:I won’t allow them to see me ache. I won’t allow them to see me suffer.

5.p.270:I may be separated from my family, my village, and my mountain, but in my heart I’m connected to them more than ever.

6.p.606:One hundred percent American and one hundred percent Chinese.

7.p.88: superstition and traditions that hurt people

8.p.556:Green tea has high levels of polyphenols. These antioxidants fight free radicals, which many scientists believe contribute to the aging process, including damage ot DNA, some types of cancer, cardiovascular disease, etc.

Golden Sentence:

1.p.232.If you work hard, you will eat easy, If you work easy, you will eat hard.

2.p.14:A single kernels cannot change its direction.

3.p.373:The quality and goodness of a tea are for the mouth to decide.

4.p.557:Every hour spent drinking tea is a distillation of all the tea hours that have ever been spent; and Truly you can find the universal through the particular of tea.

Conclusion:

1.Lisa See did a lot of research on the history of puerh and Chinese culture for this novel.(R.10)

2. A powerful story about circumstances, culture, and distance, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond of family.(R.3)

3. This is an amazing book about the strength of women and never giving up.  (R.11)

4.Don’t ask what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for yourself( notes from Green Book)

5.No matter how destiny they have to face, they try their best to keep scraping by. Wedding makes a girl turn into a heroine.

6.White Whale p.377 : the whale will punish those who are greedy or negligent. the hunters know: the whale gives himself to those who have performed the ritual; just as surely, the whale will punish those who are greedy or negligent.(r.33)

The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Questions by Clive:

It is easy to be emotionally invested in Li-Yan’s life, her sorrows, her adventures, her questioning, her great loss at having to abandon her daughter and her life-long quest to find her.  It is easy also, to appreciate Haley’s story.  The author was inspired to write this book after one day seeing a young Chinese girl with a black ponytail walking between two Caucasian parents. She wondered what it must be like to think about how you were precious and special enough to complete this couple’s family, while at the same time you were thought not precious enough for your own mother to hold onto. During her research, she interviewed many of these girls and their parents, as well as women who had let their daughters go.

Discussion Questions.

1.The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane begins with the Akha saying, "No coincidence, no story." What are the major coincidences in the story? Are they believable?

It is a kind of documentary literature, the author met the largest Pu’er importer into the USA and also attended the World Tea Expo. All the people she met do set the story in motion.(p.620)

 I think the only real coincidences in the story were Tinas running into Deh-ja, although it seems that Tina and Haleys lives had intersected numerous times and they could have possibly ran into each other in America, so I found it sort of unbelievable that the first time they meet was in the tea grove where Tina gave birth to Haley. Especially as they were both looking for each other. Haley run into Sean( Xian-rong) is the most sweet karma for me. Sean is cured by Haley’s grandmom’s tea and Haley come for a long way to find out her life secret in the tea grove.

2. Perhaps the most shocking moment in the novel comes with the birth of the twins and what happens to them. A-ma explains that "only animals, demons, and spirits give birth to litters. If a sow gives birth to one piglet, then both must be killed at once. If a dog gives birth to one puppy, then they too must be killed immediately." The traditions surrounding twins are very harsh, to say the least, but were you able to understand what happens to them within the context of Akha culture? How does this moment change Li-yan’s view of Akha Law, and what are the consequences?

p.56  Twins are the worst taboo in their culture, for only animals, demons, and spirits give birth to litters, if not reject, the entire village might end up inhabited by only them. They must sent to the great lake of boiling blood. Ci-do and Deh-ja’s twins are tucked by Deh-ja with a mixture of rice husks and ashes.

p.58 Li-yan wonder if the twins have souls? If God created a tree to represent each and every Akha, have two trees now toppled in the spirit world? Once when Li-yan got rejection, she decided not to kill them , but find a shelter for her.

3. What is Li-yan’s first reaction when she sees her land? Why does A-ma believe the tea garden is so important? Why does A-ma believe that the trees are sacred?　 What is the significance of the mother tree?

Everything in this book seemed to revolve around Mothers, The Mother Tree and its life saving properties brought Mr. Huang and his son Sean into Tinas life, and provided her family and village with a livelihood. Tinas feelings about the Mother tree also seemed to mirror her feelings about her own Mother to some extent and she grew to appreciate them both more. And the Mother tree provided a sanctuary for Tina to give birth to Haley and the life saving properties of the Mother Tree may have even kept Haley alive as an infant. It also provided a way for Haley to find her way home.

Sean is saved by the Pu-er tea, Mother land is a cure-all place for love from past and future love.

4. Can the experience Li-yan’s village has with selling Pu’er be thought of as a microcosm for globalization? Why or why not? Are all the changes to the village positive? What is the Taiwanese vision of this?

The village became more a part of the world outside through the wealth they gained from selling Puer and many of their traditions were lost due to outside influences.

5. There is clearly animosity and even hate from the Han majority and the ethnic minorities?  Why doesn’t this animosity exist here with the indigenous people?

Motherland is the fountain to demolish animosity and bring fortunes. White Whale p.377 : the whale will punish those who are greedy or negligent. the hunters know: the whale gives himself to those who have performed the ritual; just as surely, the whale will punish those who are greedy or negligent.(r.33)

6. As a midwife, A-ma occupies a position of relative power on the mountain, although as "first among women" she still comes after every man. Can such a traditional role for women be truly empowering?
I think her real power came when she choose to step outside the limits of their society and choose to help Tina give birth in secret and then helped her save her daughter’s life.(R.18)

7. This novel uses a number of devices to tell Haley’s story, including letters, a transcript of a therapy session, and homework assignments. It isn’t until the final chapter, however, that you hear Haley in her own pure voice and see the world entirely from her point of view. Did this style of storytelling enrich your experience of the narrative? Did it make you more curious about Haley?

Yes.

8. In the chapter transcribing a group therapy session for Chinese-American adoptees that Haley attends, many of the patients have mixed feelings about their adoptive and birth parents. Were you surprised by their anger? In Korea, trans-national adoptions are a national shame, how about here in Taiwan?

Yes, it was sad, I think they should probably end or at least that the adoptive parents should look more like the children they are adopting.(R.18)

The rule here in Taiwan is strict, double adopter but 700 each year were adopted abroad. Depends on the kinship, we here more prefer foster than adoption.

9. In the novel, cultural identity is like an invisible thread that pulls the women together, perhaps more than tea.  Is this really the case? Does cultural identity really matter so much and so deeply? 

Myron Lustig notes that cultural identities are central to a persons sense of self. That is because cultural identities “are central, dynamic, and multifaceted components of one’s self concept” (Lustig, 133).(R.22) We need to know where I am , then we will know where we go.

August Book Meeting Announcement:

Please remember our September book discussion have been  changed forward to next Friday, Aug. 30.  This is a very engrossing book, and easy to read (though 631 pages) , especially close to our Chinese Tea culture, and relate to the geography of the province of China - Yunnan, though the story happens in a  small tribe in one of mountains of Yunnan, the story also extends about to  Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, America,  a very interesting book, that is  worth to discuss. please see the attachments by Clive.  We are really very happy to see our special honorable master -  Clive come back to lead the book, we havent seen him for long.

Book Club Meeting August..odt

August 30  activity:

Book: The Tea Girl of Humingbird Lane

Leader:  Clive Hazell

Time: 1 p.m. Aug. 30, 2019

Place: Qubit Cafe (Hanshin Arena) No.6, Lane 50, Bo-Ai 3 Road,

Zuo Ying District, Kaohsiung.  Tel:07-3459477

高雄市左營區博愛三路50巷6號

http://qubit.bais.com.tw/

https://www.google.com.tw/

Parking: in the basement of the Qubit Café

We deeply thank to Clive for leading our Sept. Discussion, he really gives us an impressive guide in the meeting and an insightful analysis, that brings everyone to have the heated discussion on the book. The followings is a report from him.

I think it is fair to say that most people who read the book we discussed today, absolutely loved it. It is a novel about a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. While the novel starts in what feels like an ancient, rural Chinese village, it’s actually set in modern times. The village doesn’t have electricity or running water, and is steeped in longtime traditions—some that are very surprising There’s a heartbreaking and shocking scene in which twins born in an Akha village are considered human rejects. The parents are forced to murder the twins. It’s a disturbing scene, but one that exemplifies the order and rules of their village in a really emotional way. We thought it was interesting how various parts of t...

As for the plan to Yunnan province, I am planning, and will give you the cost and schedule, 8 days around 30000 NTD. The cost is I directly connect with the local agency, so it’s very cheap, maybe we can set off on Nov. 10. If anyone is interested to go, please register, and let me know.

D1 到达昆明，接机签合同，需要提前预定

D2 拉市海+玉龙雪山（蓝月谷）+丽水金沙+丽江古城（住丽江）

D3 丽江-泸沽湖+情人沙滩+里格观景台+摩梭篝火晚会（住泸沽湖）

D4 摩梭原始村落-走婚桥-草海-丽江（住丽江）

D5 丽江-香格里拉 虎跳峡+小中甸牧场+月光古城 (住香格里拉)

D6 香格里拉-丽江 普达措公园+属都湖+高山牧场+碧塔海(住丽江)

D7 蝴蝶泉公园+洱海大游船+南诏风情岛-洱海骑行（住大理）

D8 大理古城+崇圣寺三塔；动车返昆明（住昆明）

D9 昆明石林一日游 （住昆明）

D10 昆明送机

The above is $ 3280 Renminbi for 10 day. The plane ticket is about NTD 14500.  If only 8 days is $ 2980 Renminbi, very cheap compared to Taiwan Angency.

As for the plan to Yunnan province, I am planning, and will give you the cost and schedule, 10 days around 30000 NTD. The cost is I directly connect with the local agency, so it’s very cheap, maybe we can set off on Nov. 10. If anyone is interested to go, please register, and let me know.

Related Reading:

1.Lisa See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_See

2.The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/this-is-mother-love-in-lisa-sees-the-tea-girl-of-hummingbird-lane/

3.The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25150798-the-tea-girl-of-hummingbird-lane

4.Bana Tea: https://www.banateacompany.com/

5.Akha Heritage Foundation: http://www.akha.org/

6.Akha Heritage Foundaiton: http://www.oneworld365.org/company/akha-heritage-foundation

7.Akha People: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akha_people

8.Nannuo: http://www.yunnanadventure.com/index.php/Attraction/show/id/236.html

9.Laobanzhang: https://www.banateacompany.com/pages/puerh_teas-LaoBanzhang_Ming.html

10.Tea time, me time: https://teatimemetime.com/the-tea-girl-of-hummingbird-lane-a-book-review/?fbclid=IwAR3hCa6pzXGOyChQ51V5ft0nnuYrWEBT-kr4IGNW5h8Ir7uzgYnEY59Dg-E

11.The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane: https://nicolewbrown.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-tea-girl-of-hummingbird-lane-by.html?fbclid=IwAR3UmqAcctm0-gO3IxSXsCmLDKLITeo306BAkGGYaXZzrNwrq8bGshoRZTw

12. The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane You Tube: https://www.facebook.com/SSEdLib/videos/10154396770538837/

13.Akka: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akha_people

14.Akka Hill Tribe: https://www.green-trails.com/ethnic-minorities-in-northern-thailand/akha-hill-tribe/

15.Lisa See Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WOaBTzgW3w

16.Lisa See Video: https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/i-have-an-idea/w/researching-your-idea/6619/simon-schuster-presents-a-book-club-matinee-featuring-bestselling-author-lisa-see---video

17. Questions for The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane: https://www.lisasee.com/books-new/the-tea-girl-of-hummingbird-lane/book-club-questions-for-the-tea-girl-of-hummingbird-lane/

18. Book review and answers: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2543099930

19. The role in the story: https://www.bookcompanion.com/the_tea_girl_of_hummingbird_lane_character_list2.html

20 Summary and study guide: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-tea-girl-of-hummingbird-lane/#gsc.tab=0

21.why hard to adopt here in Taiwan: https://www.upmedia.mg/news_info.php?SerialNo=7258

22.Culture Identity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_identity_theory

23.Menghai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menghai_County

24.Nannuo Mountain: https://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item/3128/a-tea-story-nannuo-mountain

25.Why is Nannuo Tea Mountain so special: https://www.yunnanexploration.com/nannuo-tea-mountain-in-menghai-county-xishuangbanna.html

26.tea processing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_processing

27.Kunming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunming

28.Sarah Chang: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8E%8E%E6%8B%89%C2%B7%E5%BC%B5

29.Puer Tea Cake: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/普洱茶

30.Simao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simao_District

31.Laobanzhang: https://www.banateacompany.com/pages/puerh_teas-LaoBanzhang_Ming.html

32.Yiwu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiwu

33.In search of Moby Dick: https://www.amazon.com/Search-Moby-Quest-White-Whale/dp/0465076963

34.summery https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6NOL_UaGc6MQ2RPYjNCMEEwMVZlQUNrcVRiRElFOWJFbVNF/view