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SUMMARY:Professor Dame Jessica Rawson - Gold\, Horses and the Rise of the Silk Roads
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dame-jessica-rawson-gold-horses-and-the-rise-of-the-silk-roads/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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SUMMARY:Robin Masefield - The World Administered by Irishmen: The Life and Times of Robert Hart and Irish Contemporaries in East Asia
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWhile\, 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 together a treasure trove of other Irish people in East Asia – men from Ulster in the Customs Service; a nurse from Roscommon; a doctor from Cork; a diplomat from Meath; Hong Kong governors from Dublin; and many more. Using first-hand accounts where possible\, the book vividly brings to life the special contribution that Irish men and women made to developing relations with China\, Japan and Korea in the 19th century. It is illustrated with three hundred images. \nRobin Masefield worked in Hong Kong in the 1980s\, and this is his third book with an Asian focus. He was awarded the CBE in 2003. \nSince retiring in Belfast in 2010\, he has written a number of books\, including three on aspects of local history in North Down. \nHe and his wife\, Rosemary\, moved to Surrey in autumn 2023. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. \nThe book can be obtained online at www.blackstaffpress.com\, or email specialcollections@qub.ac.uk.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/robin-masefield-the-world-administered-by-irishmen-the-life-and-times-of-robert-hart-and-irish-contemporaries-in-east-asia/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Council
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/council-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240312T183000
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SUMMARY:Ann Wilks (CBE) - Britain’s Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nThe newly discovered papers and colourfully-written letters of Anglo-Irish Sir Henry Dobbs\, which form the backbone of this book\, reveal his importance in the development of the modern Middle East. \nAn influential civil servant and Britain’s longest serving High Commissioner in Iraq at a time when the British empire was facing increasing challenges to its once dominant position\, he describes the difficulties of governing first in India then in the formerly Ottoman Mesopotamia during WW1. Here\, Dobbs had to devise administrative systems while often at odds with his superior\, Sir Percy Cox. In the discussions that followed the Third Afghan War\, Dobbs manoeuvred between the different views in London and Delhi with great dexterity to negotiate alone with the Amir of Afghanistan the enduring 1921 Anglo-Afghan treaty. \nHaving accepted from the League of Nations the responsibility for taking the newly-created Iraq to sustainable independence in the aftermath of WW1\, the cash-strapped British government came under great domestic pressure to abandon it. Key to British support continuing was Iraqi acceptance of the controversial 1922 treaty with Britain. This Dobbs achieved by disregarding the unhelpful approach recommended by London and\, risking his career\, he pressed on with his own wholly unauthorised tactics. In other initiatives\, Dobbs ensured that Mosul province remained within Iraq. Dobbs consistently pressed for Iraq’s early independence – granted in 1932\, the first territory in the former Ottoman Empire to gain it. \nAn early advocate of self-determination Dobbs was frequently at odds with the more traditional imperial approach of his superiors. He always endeavoured to balance the aspirations and needs of overseas communities for whom he was responsible with the interests of Britain which he represented.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/ann-wilks-cbe-britains-man-on-the-spot-in-iraq-and-afghanistan/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240314T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240314T173000
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SUMMARY:Finance Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/finance-committee/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240314T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240314T203000
DTSTAMP:20240307T154147Z
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SUMMARY:Juan de Lara -  Qaryat al Fāw - An Emporium Between the Classical and Islamic World
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/juan-de-lara-qaryat-al-faw-an-emporium-between-the-classical-and-islamic-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240321T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240321T173000
DTSTAMP:20240311T153220Z
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SUMMARY:Events and House Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/events-and-house-committee-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240321T183000
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DTSTAMP:20240221T120603Z
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SUMMARY:Dr David W. Kim - A South Asian Neutral Power: India of the United Nations on the Korean Peninsula (1947-1955)
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/david-kim-contemporary-buddhist-movements-in-korea-conflict-new-leadership-and-diversity/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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