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Tea in the American Experience: From Colonial Times to Today

Pauli Murray Hall, room 569 102 Emerson Dr., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Today, Americans are some of the world’s biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is preferred. These national partialities, Robert Hellyer reveals, are deeply entwined. In his new book, Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s … Read more

Lao Cuisine in the Appalachian Foothills

The Carolina Asia Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, in coordination with the other Duke-UNC Area Studies Centers and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is delighted to offer a variety of programming for teachers to recognize International Education Week 2021, … Read more

FLAS information session

Come learn more about the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships offered by the area studies centers at UNC. This information session will allow students (or eligible prospective students) to ask their questions about the fellowship or about the … Read more

Supporting Less-Commonly Taught Language Teaching in North Carolina

The Duke-UNC area studies centers and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction are delighted to host this panel discussion, as an aspect of our Learning-through-Languages celebration of teaching and learning.   Both to serve an increasingly diverse population in … Read more

Asia Scholar Network Conference 2021

The UNC System Asia Scholar Network exists to create a community of scholars working on Asia-related topics across the 16 UNC system campuses and community colleges across the state. We build on the strengths of each college and university, providing scholars with … Read more

Off-Record Communications: Reading Three-Body in China and the US

The conventional wisdom of Western media continues to characterize communication in China as censored, sanitized, and, with the hyper-technologized dominance in facial recognition technologies, “techno-authoritarian.” This talk presents evidence that, although ubiquitous, off-record communications are often not the results of … Read more

FLAS information session

Come learn more about the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships offered by the area studies centers at UNC. This information session will allow students (or eligible prospective students) to ask their questions about the fellowship or about the … Read more

The Carolina Asia Center supports diverse Asia-related events. However, CAC co-sponsorship of any talk, seminar, documentary screening, film screening, performance or celebration does not constitute endorsement of or agreement with the views presented therein. As an academic institution, we value diverse perspectives that promote dialogue and understanding.