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  • Book 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 Kingdom

    Since 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…

  • Dr. Stefan Halikowski-Smith (Swansea University)

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Lecture: Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the Late Seventeenth Century

  • Professor Henrietta Harrison (Oxford University)

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in early nineteenth-century London

  • Dr Ed Pulford (University of Cambridge)

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Time and History across China's Northeastern Borders

  • Book Launch – ‘Cartooning China: Punch, Power, and Politics in the Victorian Era’ By Dr Amy Matthewson

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Thursday 19th May at 6.30pm   Cartooning China" Punch, Power, and Politics in the Victorian Era explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901.  This talk will give an overview of the book by taking a look at…

  • Jessica Harrison-Hall: China’s Hidden Century (at SOAS Djam Lecture Theatre, joint event with The Meridian Society)

    Djam Lecture Theatre, SOAS

    Date:   Friday 1st December, 2023 Time:   19:00-21:00 Venue: Djam Lecture Theatre SOAS Main Building 10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG   The Meridian Society is delighted to present the above event in association with the Royal Asiatic Society, the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding and the SOAS Chinese Culture Society.   Visitors to…