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Connected by a 'River of Smoke': Amitav Ghosh and Jonathan Spence at The Asia Society
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Connected by a 'River of Smoke': Amitav Ghosh and Jonathan Spence at The Asia Society
The Asia Society inaugurated its new Asian Arts & Ideas series this month with “The ‘Chindia’ Dialogues,” a three-day forum that examined the confluence of the world’s two most powerful developing economies.
The organizers chose an unusual point of departure for event — not a historical overview, but a conversation between Jonathan Spence, former Sterling Professor of History at Yale, and the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.
