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Professor Mark Liechty: Winner of the Subedi Prize 2023
The Society is delighted to announce the winner of the first Surya Subedi Prize which is awarded to Professor Mark Liechty for his book “What Went Right” (Amazon link), subtitled: “sustainability versus…
29 September 2023 -
The History of (Lap)dogs in China – post by 2023 Staunton Prize winner Dr Kelsey Granger
The Society is delighted to award the 2023 Sir George Staunton Prize for outstanding article to Dr Kelsey Granger for her submission entitled From Tomb-Keeper to Tomb-Occupant: The Changing Conceptualisation of Dogs…
15 September 2023 -
New Histories of the East India Company
On the 4th August the Society was host to a panel on New Histories of the East India Company chaired by RAS Vice President Dr Gordon Johnson. The talk is now available…
8 September 2023 -
Can understanding history and the past help us navigate the present — and the future? by Alan Babington-Smith and Melinda Liu
Our thanks to Melinda Liu and Alan Babington-Smith for this guest post on the RASBJ. You can find out more about RASBJ at their website: rasbj.org And watch some of their talks…
1 September 2023 -
Julie Chun – RAS China: Shifts and Transformations of the past decade, 2013-2023
As part of our 2023 celebrations the Society is inviting its sister Societies from around the world to give presentations at the RAS. In June we welcomed Julie Chun from the Shanghai…
11 August 2023 -
Book launch of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge by Dr Joshua Ehrlich
On Monday 17th July the Society hosted the book launch of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge by Dr Joshua Ehrlich. Joshua is a historian of knowledge, political…
4 August 2023 -
Professor Wayne Patterson – William Nelson Lovatt in Late Qing China
Last month the Society was delighted to welcome Professor Wayne Patterson to give a talk on William Nelson Lovatt. Dr Weipin Tsai, an associate editor for the Society’s journal and member of…
28 July 2023 -
Chinese Tiger Lore through Folk Prints (David Leffman guest post)
This weeks blog post comes courtesy of David Leffman who gave a presentation on Chinese wood blocks to the Society in June, the recording of which is now available on YouTube: For…
24 July 2023 -
Dr Elizabeth Driver – A Bicentenary Tour of the Royal Asiatic Society (Part 2)
Two important Rajput forts Tod was greatly moved by the great Rajput forts of Kumbalgarh and Chittorgarh, which he visited under very different circumstances. Kumbalgarh Kumbalgarh had been…
6 July 2023 -
Dr Elizabeth Driver – A Bicentenary Tour of the Royal Asiatic Society (Part 1)
Visiting some of the places described by Tod in the Personal Narratives of the Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan. Introduction Col James Tod is, of course, important to us as the…
30 June 2023
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- Professor Mark Liechty: Winner of the Subedi Prize 2023
- The History of (Lap)dogs in China – post by 2023 Staunton Prize winner Dr Kelsey Granger
- New Histories of the East India Company
- Can understanding history and the past help us navigate the present — and the future? by Alan Babington-Smith and Melinda Liu
- Shadows at Noon – review by Dr Gordon Johnson