Tag / China
Revisiting ‘Ancestral Worship’
This week, our blog features a post by Raymond Mann, exploring the background to one of the photos in our China Glass Slide collection. This photo was previously labelled ‘Ancestral Worship’, but…
31 May 2024Jessica Harrison-Hall: China’s Hidden Century (at SOAS Djam Lecture Theatre, joint event with The Meridian Society)
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…
26 October 2023Book Launch – ‘Cartooning China: Punch, Power, and Politics in the Victorian Era’ By Dr Amy Matthewson
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…
4 May 2022Sir George Thomas Staunton
This Tuesday (10th August), marked the anniversary of the death of Sir George Thomas Staunton, 2nd Baronet (26 May 1781- 10 August 1859) who was a former Vice President and one of…
13 August 2021Collections Summer Update
Traditionally, the Society is quieter than usual during the Summer months, due to the lower number of Events. But staff continue to work busily away, and in recent weeks we have been…
2 July 2021British Legal Disputes and Literary Connections in 1800s Canton
Last week, Monday 27 July, The Times publicized some new research at The National Archives. This relates to an 1810 incident in Canton (Guangzhou) when British sailors were implicated in the killing…
4 August 2020Happy New Year
Happy New Year! Despite all the world difficulties that present themselves as we begin 2020, we hope that this year will bring some fulfillment in your research and personal activities. Here at…
9 January 2020Dr Ed Pulford (University of Cambridge)
Time and History across China’s Northeastern Borders
7 October 2019Professor Henrietta Harrison (Oxford University)
George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in early nineteenth-century London
7 October 2019Dr. Stefan Halikowski-Smith (Swansea University)
Lecture: Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the Late Seventeenth Century
5 September 2019