Free and open to all at 14 Stephenson Way, NW1 2HD To join online email Matty: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to the 1850s it was also the world's most enlightened one. Joshua…
Robin Masefield’s latest book, published by Queen’s University Belfast, is entitled The World Administered by Irishmen: The Life and Times of Robert Hart and Irish Contemporaries in East Asia. While, the initial focus is on the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and the Ulsterman Sir Robert Hart who led it for 45 years, the book brings…
Please join us for the book launch of Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan with author Professor Ruby Lal. Free and open to all at the Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, NW1 2HD. To join online please email Matty at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
The Dervish Bowl The Many Lives of Arminius Vambéry ‘A compelling portrait of one of the 19th century’s most characteristic heroes’ Asian Review of Books ‘Arminius Vambéry was one of the shadier characters to travel the fabled Silk Roads through Persia to Central Asia. His mostly forgotten story is vividly told in Anabel…
Olivia Cox-Fill Walking a Tightrope Memories of Wu Jieping, Personal Physician to China's Leaders Olivia Cox-Fill reveals the compelling story of Dr. Wu Jieping (1917 - 2011), selected as personal physician to China's leaders by Premier Zhou Enlai. ‘All dissident scholars, protected by those in power, following the capitalist road, must be eliminated.’ Chairman Mao…
9 May 2026 (Saturday)