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X-WR-CALNAME:Global France Seminar presents\, Subha Xavier “From Opium to
  Fentanyl Wars: China in the Western Imaginary”
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DESCRIPTION:Presented by Subha Xavier\nAssociate Professor of French and Af
 rican Studies at Emory University\n\n \n\nAbstract: This talk will conside
 r how China has been imagined by the Western imaginary since the Opium war
 s of the last century\, especially in France\, and how Sino-French immigra
 nt writers and artists have responded to this misrepresentation over the y
 ears. Examining how empires rise and fall\, and the role of fantasy and op
 ioids in political strategy and literary representation\, this presentatio
 n will argue for a longue durée approach to where China and France collud
 e and collide in the migrant imaginary.\n\n \n\nBio: Subha Xavier is Assoc
 iate Professor of French and African Studies at Emory University. She is a
 uthor of The Migrant Text: Making and Marketing a Global French Literature
  and forthcoming work on Sino-French Literary Exchange. She is a specialis
 t of global French\, with articles and essays on migrant writing and film 
 in journals in several languages.\n\n \n\nGlobal France Seminar Fall 2025 
 | Website\n\n09/24/2025 Mohamed Amer Meziane (Brown University). “How th
 e Fall of Heaven Overturned the Earth: Empire\, Capital and the Secularoce
 ne” (MIT Hayden Library 14S-110 @ 5:15pm)\n10/20/2025 Julien Gelas (Thé
 âtre du Chêne Noir\, Avignon\, France). Live Performance in France 2025 
 (MIT 4-253 @ 5:15pm)\n10/27/2025 Subha Xavier (Emory University). “From 
 Opium to Fentanyl Wars: China in the Western Imaginary” (MIT 14E-304 @ 5
 :15pm)\n11/19/2025 Tamara Chaplin (University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champai
 gn). Becoming Lesbian (MIT 14N-112 @ 5:15pm)\n12/2/2025 Keith Baker (Stanf
 ord University). Jean-Paul Marat. Prophet of Terror. (MIT-TBD @ 5pm)\n12/3
 /2025 Judith Miller (New York University). (14E-304 @ 5:15pm)
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LOCATION:Building 14\, 14E-304
SUMMARY:Global France Seminar presents\, Subha Xavier “From Opium to Fent
 anyl Wars: China in the Western Imaginary”
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.mit.edu/event/gfs-from-opoid-to-fentanyl-war
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