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- Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Frances Wood and Christopher Arnander Book Launch ‘Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War’
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomBook Launch: The Legacy of Nuclear Power by Professor Andrew Blowers OBE (Emeritus Professor, Open University)
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom‘The Defiant Border ‘ by Elisabeth Leake – Book Launch
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomBook Launch – Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220: The Patronage of Sultans, by Richard P McClary
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomStudies the key monuments built for the Rum Seljuq sultans, 1170-1220 This lavishly illustrated volume presents the major surviving monuments of the early period of the Rum Seljuqs, the first major Muslim dynasty to rule Anatolia. A much-needed overview of the political history of the dynasty provides the context for the study of the built…
Nancy Charley Poetry Collection Launch
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomBook Launch. Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910–1962 (Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, King’s College London)
Royal Asiatic Society Council Room 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomSince the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of their simultaneous attempts to win the approval and support of the Himalayan people. When China and…
Palmyra 1885 Book Launch
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomBook Launch Bruno de Nicola Women in Mongol Iran
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomBruno De Nicola investigates the development of women’s status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate of Iran in 1335. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters show a coherent progression of this development and contextualise the evolution of the role of women in medieval Mongol…
George Kam Wah Mak Book Launch: Protestant Bible Translation and Mandarin as the National Language of China
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom