Prof. Laurence Coderre of New York University will speak on her recent monograph, Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China (Duke University Press, 2021). Whereas the contemporary era in China is often depicted in terms of rampant, ideologically vacuous commodification, … Read more
At 12:30 on Friday, October 27th, in a public lecture and discussion sponsored by UNC-CH’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, Prof. Chad Bryant will present “Blogging and Belonging: Prague’s Czech-Vietnamese Community and What Social Media Might Have Been.” Please join us!
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
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