Of Jesus and Opium: the missionaries and Opium Wars | Dr Lars Laamann & Iris Yau
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2021-06-18

An online gallery tour and discussion between curator Iris Yau and Dr Lars Laamann (SOAS Senior Lecturer in the History of China)

The online talk was held live on 18 June 2021 from the Brunei Gallery SOAS, at the exhibition Opium, Silk and the Missionaries in China

To see images of some of the objects discussed in detail, please visit our web page: https://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/opium-silk-and-the-missionaries-in-china/

If you would like to visit the Opium, Silk and the Missionaries in China exhibition at the Brunei Gallery SOAS, please use our online booking system - it's on until  26 June: https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/ExhibitionGalleriesBruneiGallery@soas.ac.uk/bookings/

Event image courtesy of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Economic Botany Collections 'Opium Smokers in China High Society, carved in wood, 1879 [KEBC ref.41297]