Author Amitav Ghosh- "China and the Making of Modern India"

When
Mon Dec 3, 2012
Where
Cemex Auditorium, Stanford University
Time
6:00-7:30pm
Tags
Arts

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Stanford Humanities Center Event-

"China and the Making of Modern India: A Story of Fantasy, Abuse, and Recovered Memory"

The opium trade had momentous consequences for Chinese history in the 18th and 19th centuries. Amitav Ghosh will speak about the lesser-known impact that this trade had on arts, crafts, tastes and styles in India, the world's leading opium-producing country under the British Raj.

Website: http://shc.stanford.edu/events/calendar/2012-12-3-amitav-ghosh-quotchina-and-the-making-of-modern-india-a-story-of-fantasy-abuse-and-recovered-memoryquot.html

The talk is free and open to the public.

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Location

  1. Cemex Auditorium, Stanford University
    Zambrano Hall, 641 Knight Way, Stanford, CA