Asia in the Humanities/Humanities in Asia Forum
with
James Chandler, University of Chicago
and
R. Bin Wong, UCLA
Monday, January 12, 2015
4:00-5:30 PM
Young Research Library Presentation Room
UCLA
James
Chandler, Barbara
E. & Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments
of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Chicago, will present
“Narcotics and Empires: Opium in Literature, History, and Film. The talk
illuminates the role of British opium in China as an invisible inspiration in
literature and film, from Charles Dickens to D.W. Griffith. R. Bin
Wong, Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the UCLA Asia
Institute, will follow with commentary contrasting the political and economic
significance of the Opium War to Britain in the 1840s with its political and
economic significance to China today. Together the presentations suggest ways
of understanding how Asia’s place in the Humanities can be expanded at the same
time as we pay more attention to how the Humanities figure in Asian settings.
This dialogue exemplifies one way of bringing Asia into the Humanities that the
“Asia in the Humanities, the Humanities in Asia” is meant to encourage.
For more
about the Asia Institute Asia in the Humanities/Humanities in Asia initiative,
please visit http://international.ucla.edu/asia/humanities.
UCLA Asia Institute
11288 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1446
Phone: (310) 825-0007
Fax: (310) 206-3555
Email: asia@international.ucla.edu
Website: www.international.ucla.edu/asia
11288 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1446
Phone: (310) 825-0007
Fax: (310) 206-3555
Email: asia@international.ucla.edu
Website: www.international.ucla.edu/asia
