This event is free and open to all and no registration is required. To watch online over zoom email Matty (mb@royalasiaticsociety.org) About the book: In 1966, with the words 'Bombard the Headquarters!' Mao Zedong unleashed the full, violent force of a movement that he called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. By the time he…
The library of the Saadian sultans, in Spain (San Lorenzo de El Escorial) from the beginning of the 17th century, is an invaluable source for the history of intellectual and cultural life in Morocco during the Saadian period. It also paves the way for a study of Morocco's relations with its close neighbours: the Ottomans…
In 1940, the Royal Asiatic Society published Adventurers in Siam in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Walter Hutchinson (1881-1972), familiarly known as “Hutch”. If Hutch’s own experiences in Siam/Thailand (and especially in Chiang Mai and the north) in the years 1904 to 1949 were not quite as “adventurous” as those of the subjects of…
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…