Research Cluster for Chinese Entrepreneurial Studies Public Lecture: Opium Farming in Colonial Singapore: Shifting Patterns of Chinese Entrepreneurship

Event Details

Date:

Wednesday, 29 April 2015 - Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Time:

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Room:

213

UQ Location:

Richards Building (St Lucia)

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Opium Farming in Colonial Singapore: Shifting Patterns of Chinese Entrepreneurship

Professor Carl A. Trocki

Chair: Dr Kriston R. Rennie

Carl A. Trocki is a senior scholar of Southeast Asian history. He has published on the history and politics of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Chinese diaspora, and the drug trade in Asia. He has held appointments at Georgetown University in Washington, DC as the Jacobson Visiting Associate Professor in Southeast Asian History and the Queensland University of Technology as the Professor of Asian Studies. His recent books include Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade, 1750-1950, and Singapore: Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control, both by Routledge. He was also an editor of Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Postwar Singapore, NUS Press. He is a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.