Tag / Royal Asiatic Society
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Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning – Out Now!
This week’s blog post is by RAS Librarian Edward Weech. Many long-time readers of the Society’s blog will remember that, in 2015, the RAS acquired the archive of Thomas Manning (1772-1840). At…
18 November 2022 -
The Society’s 100th Anniversary in 1923
As well as researching the Society’s past, and its collections for the forthcoming exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, I am also researching the past anniversaries of the Society to present a paper…
12 August 2022 -
AGM
AGM 2021 Thursday 27th May at 5.30pm via Zoom Please register your attendance by emailing mb at royalasiaticsociety.org Please note that you must be a current Fellow to attend the AGM. 2020…
24 May 2021 -
Introducing the new Archivist at the Royal Asiatic Society
For this week’s blog post I thought I would introduce myself to you all as the new Archivist at the Royal Asiatic Society and my background in getting to where I am…
16 October 2020 -
British 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 2020 -
Enjoying the Society’s Online Collections
This blog post is by the Society’s Librarian, Edward Weech. The current public health emergency means that on-site services at the RAS, like most other cultural and educational organizations, remain temporarily suspended.…
2 April 2020 -
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On the Silk Road in London
The Society held its first summer course on the ‘Silk Road’ from the 8th – 11th July. We had 8 attendees and Dr Susan Whitfield lectured on the history of the Silk…
22 July 2019 -
Sinologists of yore: traces spotted during a few days in Hong Kong
I recently visited Hong Kong to participate in a conference, Crossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies, organized by the Department of Translation and Research Centre for Translation at the Chinese University of…
12 July 2019 -
Happy Anniversary Royal Asiatic Society
Last night (Thursday 14th) we welcomed Dr. Yossef Rapoport from Queen Mary, University of London to lecture on the “Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo”, a lecture…
15 March 2019
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