Alexander Wylie – Royal Asiatic Society

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Hippisley Collection of Chinese classics now on loan at the RAS
The Society is delighted to have received a collection of Chinese books on long-term loan from the London Library. The books were collected by Alfred Hippisley (1848-1939), who worked for the Imperial…
14 December 2018
China, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
Snapshot of Collections Care
We are pleased to announce that a three year project of caring and cataloguing our photographs has been completed. Nearly all the photographs within our Collections have been appropriately packaged and catalogued…
7 December 2018
Photographs, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
On this day in 1967
On this day (November 30th) in 1967, South Yemen gained its independence from Britain. Formerly the Colony of Aden, this had been ruled as part of British India from its invasion by…
30 November 2018
Photographs, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
Professor Ian Gow (University of Edinburgh) – The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie 1815-1887: Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathemetician
The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie 1815-1887, : Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathematician Alexander Wylie was one of the leading members of a unique concentration of Missionary Scholars and who lived and worked…
17 September 2018

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