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  • 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
  • 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
    Collections, RAS Collections, Royal Asiatic Society
  • 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
    Collections, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Royal Asiatic Society
  • 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
    Collections, Royal Asiatic Society
  • Launch event marks RAS Digital Library

    Last night (Thursday 5 April) the Society held an event to launch its new Digital Library, which you can find online here: http://royalasiaticcollections.org/. The launch event was an important opportunity to reflect…

    6 April 2018
    Collections, RAS Collections, Royal Asiatic Society
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