College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Tea today remains the world’s most consumed commercial beverage. Throughout its modern history, tea has connected the fates of growers, workers, and managers across Asia and the postcolonial world, especially coastal China and eastern India. This talk by Dr. Andrew Liu of Villanova University explores the history of competition between the Chinese and colonial Indian tea industries across the past two centuries, leveraging the story of its production, consumption and global circulation to offer a fresh and compelling account of capitalist accumulation.

This Zoom event is free and open to the public.

This event is sponsored by Inquire Capitalism and the Hyatt and Cici Brown Chair of History.

Featured Event Speaker: Andrew Liu is an assistant professor of history at Villanova University near Philadelphia. His interests include modern China, transnational Asia, and the history of capitalism and political economy.