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  • Next Collections Evening 23 March

    On Thursday 23 March, the Society will hold its next Collections Evening. In addition to giving people a chance to see some of our collections at close hand, Collections Evenings show how…

    10 March 2023
    RAS Collections, Royal Asiatic Society
  • Collected Works of Sir William Jones donated to the Society

    Yesterday, Thursday 12th January marked the start of events to celebrate the Society’s bicentenary. As part of the celebrations Professor Michael Loewe has donated a set of the first edition of the Collected…

    13 January 2023
    About the Society, Acquisitions, Recent, Royal Asiatic Society
  • Bayly Prize 2022 Finalists

    This year’s Bayly Prize had 20 entrants from across the UK, with thesis topics ranging from Himalayan agriculture to Medieval Mongol conquest. The 2022 Prize will be awarded, from a shortlist of…

    6 January 2023
    About the Society, Bayly Prize, Royal Asiatic Society
  • The Surya P. Subedi Prize

    The Royal Asiatic Society is delighted to announce the launch of the Surya P. Subedi Prize for the publication of a book or article on Nepal in English in any one calendar…

    28 November 2022
    Recent, Royal Asiatic Society, Uncategorised
  • British Legal Disputes and Literary Connections in 1800s Canton

    Last week, Monday 27 July, The Times publicized some new research at The National Archives. This relates to an 1810 incident in Canton (Guangzhou) when British sailors were implicated in the killing…

    4 August 2020
    Archives, China, RAS Collections, Royal Asiatic Society
  • Enjoying the Society’s Online Collections

    This blog post is by the Society’s Librarian, Edward Weech. The current public health emergency means that on-site services at the RAS, like most other cultural and educational organizations, remain temporarily suspended.…

    2 April 2020
    China, Collections, RAS Collections, Royal Asiatic Society
  • Conserving and Celebrating our Burmese Collections

    Earlier this week, the Society hosted a small event to commemorate the conservation of one of its manuscripts. This is a Kammavācā, a Pali term which means “an assemblage of passages from…

    4 October 2019
    Collections, RAS Collections, Royal Asiatic Society
  • Burmese manuscript conservation success

    We are delighted to announce that the project to conserve one of the Society’s Burmese manuscripts, and its rare woven braid (sazigyo), was recently completed. The conservation of these precious objects was…

    26 July 2019
    Collections, RAS Collections, Royal Asiatic Society
  • On the Silk Road in London

    The Society held its first summer course on the ‘Silk Road’ from the 8th – 11th July.  We had 8 attendees and Dr Susan Whitfield lectured on the history of the Silk…

    22 July 2019
    China, RAS Collections, Royal Asiatic Society
  • Sinologists of yore: traces spotted during a few days in Hong Kong

    I recently visited Hong Kong to participate in a conference, Crossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies, organized by the Department of Translation and Research Centre for Translation at the Chinese University of…

    12 July 2019
    China, RAS Collections, Royal Asiatic Society
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