{"id":8488,"date":"2022-02-01T00:59:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T00:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2022-02-01T00:59:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T00:59:19","slug":"commodities-and-capitalism-a-tale-of-tea-in-china-and-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/commodities-and-capitalism-a-tale-of-tea-in-china-and-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodities and Capitalism: A Tale of Tea in China and India – Anand Yang Delivers History Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 26th, Professor Anand Yang<\/a>\u00a0(International Studies and History) presented a lecture\u00a0entitled “Commodities and Capitalism: A Tale of Tea in China and India,” as part of the History Department’s 2022 History Lecture Series,\u00a0Capitalism in Action: Culture, Power, History<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the lecture, Yang presents a history of capitalism in China and India narrated through the study of a specific commodity, tea. This talk traces the development of tea as a beverage of choice across the modern world and its growth as an industry in Asia. It offers a perspective on the rise of capitalism and globalization that highlights the social, cultural, and economic differentiations and distortions within the capitalist world system. View the lecture\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n