A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.

A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.

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  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
  • A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.
A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.

A Friend from Afar (Drug Izdaleka). Documents on the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship and the Development of Tea Cultivation in Georgia, 1958. In Russian.

$90.00

Друг издалека: Документы из истории грузинско-китайской дружбы. К истории развития чаеводства в Грузии.
Батуми: Государственное издательство Аджарской АССР, 1958.
122 с.: ил.; 20 см.
Редактор Р. Комахидзе. Художник Дж. Кавлашвили. Технический редактор К. Чхартишвили.
Тираж 3000 экз.
Отпечатано в Батумской типолитографии Грузглавполиграфиздата Министерства культуры Грузинской ССР.
В издательском коленкоровом переплёте охристого цвета с тиснёной композицией: цветущая ветвь сливы и стилизованное название.
Состояние: хорошее. 
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Drug Izdaleka [A Friend from Afar]: Documents from the History of Georgian-Chinese Friendship. On the History of Tea Cultivation in Georgia.
Batumi: State Publishing House of the Adjarian ASSR, 1958.
122 pp.: illustrations; 20 cm.
Editor R. Komakhidze. Artist J. Kavlashvili. Technical editor K. Chkhartishvili.
Print run: 3,000 copies.
Printed at the Batumi Typolithography of Gruzglavpoligrafizdat, Ministry of Culture of the Georgian SSR.
In publisher's ochre cloth binding with blind- and rust-stamped design: a flowering plum branch and stylized title lettering.
Condition: good. 

A scarce documentary publication issued in Batumi at the height of Sino-Soviet friendship, devoted to the remarkable life of Lao Jin-jou (Liu Junzhou, 刘峻周, 1870–1939) — the Chinese tea master who was effectively the founder of the Georgian tea industry. Invited in 1893 by the Russian merchant K. S. Popov, Lao Jin-jou arrived in Chakvi near Batumi with a small group of Cantonese tea workers, brought seedlings and processing know-how from Hubei, and over the following three decades transformed the humid Adjarian coast into one of the principal tea-producing regions of the Russian Empire and later the USSR — winning a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle for the first Georgian tea, and in 1924 receiving the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, one of the earliest such awards bestowed on a foreign citizen by the Soviet government. The volume gathers archival documents (Sovnarkom of the Adjarian ASSR resolutions, certificates, biographical materials, and Lao's farewell letters of 1924–1925 to "the dear Republic of Adjara"), together with a letter from his eldest son Liu Zezhun received from China, and the family biography. Published in a tiny print run of 3,000 copies on the eve of the Sino-Soviet split, the book is doubly scarce: as a Batumi imprint with limited distribution beyond the Caucasus, and as a sympathetic Soviet treatment of a Chinese subject that quickly became politically awkward after 1960 — making surviving copies of interest to historians of the Russian/Soviet tea trade, of Adjara and Georgia, of Sino-Russian relations, and of the early Chinese diaspora in the Caucasus.

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