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Asia Week 2024 March 14-22
  • Our Upcoming Zoom Webinar on Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire and the Chinese Art Trade with Harvard Art Museums

    Our Upcoming Zoom Webinar on Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire and the Chinese Art Trade with Harvard Art Museums

    Opium pipe, China, Qing dynasty to Republican period, inscribed with cyclical date corresponding to 1868 or 1928. Water buffalo horn, metal, and ceramic. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.55.6. Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College; Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums

    Be sure to join us for our upcoming Zoom Webinar in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums, Unintended Consequences: An Overview of Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade, next Wednesday, Dec 13 at 5pm ET! Our guest speaker, Dr. Sarah Laursen will discuss her exhibition and provide insights into the interconnected histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market from the late 18th to early 20th centuries with moderator Lark Mason, Jr.

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