sentences:  Under the guise of an inexperienced plant hunter for the British Horticultural Society, a dour Scot named Robert Fortune steals China's secrets of tea production, a brazen act of industrial espionage that devastates China's 5,000-year-old civilization.The Perfect Tea Thief, about this little-known episode.The Perfect Tea Thief is a tale of deceit and lies, in a country of tradition crumbling under the powers of industrialization in a clash of Empires.