Tea War w/ Andrew Liu

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Professor Andrew Liu to talk about his book Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India. A fascinating discussion about capitalist development in the periphery through the story of a commodity, be sure to get the word out!

Andrew Liu is an assistant professor of history at Villanova University, where his research focuses on China, transnational Asia, and the history of Capitalism. His book Tea War is available from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300243734/tea-war. The discount code he mentions during the interview is YAB99. You can find Andrew's podcast Time to Say Goodbye wherever you get your pods, or at https://goodbye.substack.com/ and on twitter @ttsgpod. Andrew himself can be found on twitter @andybliu.

Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at guerrillahistorypod@gmail.com.

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:23.0	But they put some guerrilla action on.
0:34.3	Hello and welcome to Gorilla History, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm your host,
0:39.5	Henry Huckimacki, joined, as always, by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and
0:44.9	director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are
0:49.7	you doing today? I'm doing well, Henry. Great to be with you as ever. Yeah, it's always nice to see you. And I'm also, as always, as always joined by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you this fine morning? I'm doing great. And this work that we're going to cover today is a really interesting one, so I'm excited to dive into it. For sure. So as you alluded to the guest or the topic that we're going to have today is a book that's out,
1:16.0	a relatively new book titled T-war, A History of Capitalism in China and India by Andrew Liu,
1:22.9	who's an assistant professor of history at Villanova University.
1:29.6	Now, Adnan, I'm going to pitch this over to you to begin the conversation, this intro segment, because you had flagged this book up for the two of us
1:36.8	as being an interesting book, one that you were going through and one that would make an interesting
1:41.6	episode of guerrilla history. Can you just talk about that, you know, at what point in this book you decided that this would make a good episode of guerrilla history and why?
1:50.0	Why do you think that our show would be a good venue for a conversation about T-Wore?
1:55.0	Well, I think one reason is, of course, we like to have global coverage and deal with non-Western histories as well.
2:05.1	And this was a book that was dealing with both China and India.
2:09.2	So it seemed like a good study to integrate large regions of, you know, the Asian, you know, continent into our historical
2:19.6	understanding and analysis. And secondly, I think we understood how significant the opium
2:28.7	wars were, the history of colonialism. But one thing that we may not have understood well broadly in our just general sense of history is how China and India may have fit into a history of capitalism, which is the subject of this book. And I happen to be reading it because I'm interested in some of these new commodity histories
2:52.0	and what they have to tell us about the development of capitalism.
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