Against the Odds in Asia: Transnational Connections and Regional Activist Alliances From the 1890s to the 2020s
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WT Young Library
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History Department Workshop
Oral History Beyond the Human
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1745 Patterson Office Tower
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Drug Money and the Qing State
The History Department Workshop welcomes Dr. Peter Thilly (University of Mississippi) for a talk entitled "Drug Money and the Qing State."
Abstract:
In 1870s China, opium was a legal item of trade. It was also one of the most commonly smuggled goods, and the target of intense contestation between business and government elites. This talk will explain how the people who bought and sold opium made themselves indispensable to the late Qing Self-Strengthening movement. It will examine the opium business in the age of legal opium, and demonstrate how the tax-farming arrangements launched in the late 1850s came to support the late Qing fiscal-military state in an uneven way, by providing essential funds to the local state while also embedding wealthy opium traders in positions of unchecked power.
Bio: Peter Thilly is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi and author of The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China (Stanford, 2022). He is currently working on a project about the Small Sword Uprising of 1853.
This talk is co-sponsored by Global Asias, International Studies, and the International Center.
This talk will also be streamed on Zoom. To join: https://uky.zoom.us/j/82370581320
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W.T. Young Library Auditorium
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Primitive Normativity: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya
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1745 Patterson Office Tower
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French Caribbeans in West Africa: Colonial Citizens and the Ambiguity of Race in the Twentieth Century Atlantic World
This event has been postponed. Keep an eye out for updates regarding the rescheduled date. Thank you!
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1745 Patterson Office Tower
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Book Talk: Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century
Dr. Clark will discuss his new book, Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century with Dr. Jeremy Popkin
This event has been rescheduled to November 15, 2023
Zoom link to attend virtually: https://uky.zoom.us/j/84781496657
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1745 Patterson Office Tower and Zoom
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Blackness in a White City: Power, Privilege, and Exclusion in Cuban America
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1745 Patterson Office Tower and Zoom
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