As an event of “Tobunken (IASA) seminar”, Global History Collaborative (for its detail, see the following website: www.coretocore.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp) will hold its second research seminar, inviting Xavier Paules, senior lecturer at EHESS in Paris. The event is open for public. Everybody is welcome.

Speaker: Xavier Paules (EHESS)

Title of the talk: “A Reconsideration about the Reasons for the Success of Opium in China in the XIXth Century”

Date: 15:30-17:00 Friday 12 December

Venue: Meeting Room No.1, 3rd Floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo

Inquiry: ghc@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp