Amid yellow loquats and purple red bayberry, Hsu Shu-mei led students up a tea garden path in late May.
They were doing a field research about tea in East China’s Fujian province.
“Whenever opportunities came up after class, I would take them to tea companies for research purposes or to a tea plantation,” says Hsu, who originally came from Taiwan and is now teaching at the Anxi College of Tea Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University.
Her students range from postgraduates in the field of agricultural management to undergraduates majoring in business economics…