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Bayly Prize 2023 Shortlist Announced
The Society is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2023 Bayly Prize for a distinguished thesis on an Asian subject from a British or Irish University. The prize was established…
The Papers of Angus C. Graham
In 2018, the Society acquired the Papers and Library of Angus C. Graham thanks to the generous donation by his family. It has been one of my aims to complete the cataloguing…
A Warm Welcome from the RAS Shanghai Branch
Recently our Director, Alison Ohta, received an email from Tracey Willard, the Membership Director at the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai. We wanted to share, with a wider audience, their words of welcome…
Transcribing archival documents at the RAS: a volunteer’s perspective
Thomas Bloomfield has been volunteering at the Society over the past months assisting us with the transcription of some historical documents from our archives while he is on his gap year. Below,…
Saved for the nation: RAS acquires Thomas Manning Archive
The Royal Asiatic Society has acquired the archive of sinologist Thomas Manning (1772-1840), one of Britain’s first scholars of Chinese language and culture. The archive consists of over 400 letters to and…
