The Long Legacies of Two Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion
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THE ZOOM INFORMATION will be emailed, or MeetUp-messaged, to those who RSVP, at Greater Boston Humanists by Monday morning May 11.
Join Greater Boston Humanists as Dr. Joe Gerstein joins us from Miami Florida to speak on "The Long Legacies of Two Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion" and take your questions on this topical issue. This is an opportunity for those who cannot attend our Sunday live social events to join us.
"Feuds run long and deep. Humiliations endure in memory. China was defeated in two wars with Great Britain over Opium, and its coastal geography hijacked for a century by various European States. In revulsion against this situation, the Boxer Rebellion, as it is described in our history books, attempted to expel these incursions. The memory of these events lingers and infects US/China relations in the contest for hegemony in the Western Pacific, and the status of Taiwan. What was it all about and what are the implications for the present?"
We'll also have time for socializing!
BIO:
Joe Gerstein, MD, FACP is retired from the Harvard Medical School Faculty. He was President of the Humanist Association of MA (now Greater Boston Humanists) for over 40 years. He was a founding director of the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard (now the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard & MIT). He was a Humanist Pioneer of the AHA and a Humanist of the Year at Harvard for his work with SMART Recovery, an evidence-based, secular mutual-aid group recovery program, now with 3,500 global meetings weekly, and 600 online via ZOOM (there have been over 35,000 free SMART Recovery meetings in MA since 1990). He was Boston Ethical Society Humanist of the Year for his work in combating drug company marketing fraud.