Tang Dynasty And Globalization

Globalization is an interaction of people for economic, financial, trade and communication reasons to connect two regions together. A political, economic, sociocultural and environmental change in one region will result in a change in the other. The growth of the globalization made the commodities to move from one place to another so everyone in the world have access to the same goods and the place where they live is less matter to enjoy these goods in this modern-day world. A commodity such as tea benefits people from all over the world and it became a part of life for most people. These commodities are a desire of an individual and it's not necessary for survival but any disruption to the production of tea will affect the entire population.
In Tang Dynasty (618 AD) Chinese government promoted tea growth for the entire population where a Japanese priest brought tea back to its homeland. In the beginning, tea was mostly used by the upper class and Japanese priest to keep them stay awake during meditation. Now tea is produced in the different part of Asia and the climate plays a huge role in the production of tea. The best climate for tea production is hot, a moist climate which proves that tea crops can only grow in tropical and subtropical climates, while some grow in marine climates of British mainland and Washington in the United States. Growing tea crop has specific climate requirement such as the temperature ranging from 10-30 degree Celsius (Zone 8 climate or warmer), minimum annual precipitation of 1250 mm, acidic soils, 0.5-0.10 degree slopes and elevation up to 2000 meters. Therefore, tea can only produce in certain regions and climate change greatly influences the production of tea crops. Due to heavy rainfall and increasing temperature, the production of the tea is affected. The rainfall for a long period erodes the topsoil and dry spells make the
The people who lent money and couldn’t pay their money back due to high-interest rate from the plantation owners forced in work in their tea estates. These workers remained in the plantation are unable to leave so several hundreds of them died of starvation. Children ages between 11-17 years are dropped out of the school due to low income in their families and started working in tea plantation. These children from tea families (Adivasi) in India are discriminated to go to the governmental school that separates them from the rest of the population. This also causes language barrier and led them to work in tea plantation. The gender discrimination is the big problem in which men get paid more than women for doing the same work in the tea industry. In Kerala, India an average man performing non-leaf plucking tasks, earn almost double the payment of women. The women who are plucking the leaf get paid lower wages. These problems state that the wage of the tea worker is not increasing and the growth of tea industry did help the tea worker wage