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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Help us conserve Burmese manuscript and its rare woven braid
From today, Friday 1 March 2019, the Society is beginning a short campaign to raise funds towards the conservation of one of our manuscripts. The object in question is RAS Burmese 86,…
1 March 2019 -
Upcoming RAS events: Collections Evening and lectures galore
On Tuesday 26 March 2019, at 6.30pm, the Royal Asiatic Society will host another Collections Open Evening. As with similar occasions in the past, the evening will feature a series of short…
21 February 2019 -
RAS launches new Koha library catalogue
Digital technologies have become much more widespread in the last decade, with most of the population enjoying access to the internet at home or on their smartphones. This is the case not…
21 January 2019