Dr James Fichter, Associate Professor from the European Studies Programme of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, has done an interview with The University of Hong Kong Bulletin on his research in the symbolic value of tea in the history of American independence for a book in progress
Tea’s Party: The Politics of Tea in the American Revolution, 1773–1776.
“The tea boycott was symbolic but stupid. They were just depriving themselves of the tea that they owned. People moved to more satisfying symbols of protest, but the idea of tea as a symbol has endured.”
See the full article on Bulletin October 2016 (Vol. 18 No. 1) here:
http://www4.hku.hk/pubunit/Bulletin/ebook_2016Oct(18.1)/#49-50
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