Contents Preface Foreword Chapter I The Origin and Development of World Coffee 1 Section 1: Discovery of Coffee Seeds 2 Section 2: Diffusion of Coffee Cultivation 20 Section 3: The Evolution of Coffee From a Medicine to a Beverage 36 Section 4: The Formation and Propagation of Coffee Culture 44 Section 5: Contributions of Chinese People to the Spread of Coffee 54 Section 6: Essentials of the Historical Investigation 62 Chapter II Investigation Into the Early Introduction of Coffee to China 67 Section 1: Historical Research on the Introduction of Coffee to Taiwan Island 68 Section 2: Historical Research on the Introduction of Coffee to Nongxian Village and the Jingpo Area of Ruili City 86 Section 3: The Introduction of Coffee to Zhu Kula Village, Yunnan Province 102 Section 4: Historical Research on Coffee's Introduction to Hainan Island 124 Section 5: Contributions of the Returned Overseas Chinese to the Realisation of the Industrialisation of Coffee (1935) 132 Section 6: Essentials of the Historical Investigation 146 Chapter III The Formation and Diffusion of Chinese Coffee Culture 151 Section 1: A Historical Review 152 Section 2: Evolution of the Chinese Word for “Coffee” 158 Section 3: The Formation of Coffee Culture in Shanghai 162 Section 4: The Formation of Coffee Culture on Taiwan Island 184 Section 5: The Formation of Coffee Culture in Mengzi, China 192 Section 6: The Formation of Hainan and Nanyang Coffee Culture 200 Section 7: Coffee and the World War II 206 Section 8: Essentials of the Historical Investigation 214 Chapter IV The Rise of China's Coffee Industry and the Development of the Coffee Shop Industry 217 Section 1: Historical Research on the Rise of China's Coffee Industry (1951—2013) 218 Section 2: The Development of the Coffee Shop Industry and Its Vocational Training Program in China 266 Section 3: The Coffee Diplomacy of China 276 Appendix 281 Appendix 1: Chronology of World Coffee 281 Appendix 2: Chronology of Chinese Coffee 286 References 291 Epilogue 297