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SUMMARY:Dr Robert Morton: Sir Rutherford Alcock: First British Minister to Japan (1859-1865)\, Consul (1844-1859) and Minister (1865-1870) to China
DESCRIPTION:The son of a village doctor\, Rutherford Alcock trained in medicine and became a battlefield surgeon\, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars there in the 1830s. In a major career shift\, he entered the consular service\, went to China\, and ended up as British Minister (the equivalent of today’s ambassador) to Japan and then China. This progression was unique\, indeed bizarre\, especially as every senior position he got was one he specifically said he did not want. Nonetheless\, he was the man who commenced Britain’s relations with Japan and introduced Japan’s arts and crafts to the UK\, in addition to playing a central role in Britain’s relationship with China. He was no rampant imperialist and expressed ambivalence about Britain’s position in East Asia as he contended with intractable issues like the opium trade and how to punish attacks on British interests without starting a war. This book fills a major gap in the study of Japan’s opening to the West from a British perspective\, as well as Britain’s relationship with East Asia as a whole\, through the eyes of a brilliant\, but complicated and contradictory figure.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-robert-morton-sir-rutherford-alcock-first-british-minister-to-japan-1859-1865-consul-1844-1859-and-minister-1865-1870-to-china/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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SUMMARY:*Cancelled* Online Talk: Professor Robert Arnott (Oxford): A Century of the Harappans:  Celebrating the Discovery of a Civilisation
DESCRIPTION:*Please note that this event has been cancelled*\n  \n \n  \nThe existence of this complex urban society that was the Indus or Harappan Civilisation\, remained unknown until the 20 September 1924. It was then that Sir John Marshall\, Director-General of Archaeology in the Raj\, announced its discovery in the pages of the Illustrated London News.  He named it the Indus Civilisation\, because the finds came from two sites in the Upper and Lower Indus Valley\, Harappa\, near Lahore in The Punjab and Mohenjo-daro in Sindh\, six hundred kilometres to the south. This discovery was based on the fieldwork of the Indian archaeologists R. B. Daya Ram Sahni at Harappa in 1921 and from 1923 and Rakhal Das Banerjee and Madhu Sarup Vats at Mohenjo-daro from 1922. It was shortly to be dated to the middle and late third millennium and the early part of the second millennium BCE. \nWe are reminded of Marshall’s background. Following studying classics at King’s College\, Cambridge and before his appointment in India\, his archaeological career was with the British School at Athens in the early years of the discovery of Minoan Crete. He was strongly influenced by Sir Arthur Evans and his discoveries at Knossos\, where he had worked unearthing of the Minoan Civilisation. He wanted to find his own. \nSince a century ago\, archaeological research both in modern India and Pakistan and even farther afield in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf has been constantly enlarging our knowledge. \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/professor-robert-arnott-oxford-a-century-of-the-harappans-celebrating-the-discovery-of-a-civilisation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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