A History of Capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries Tea remains the world\'s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India.
Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical "divergence" between the W.
In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B.
A History of Capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries Tea remains the world\'s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India