Tag / Royal Asiatic Society
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Edward Weech (Royal Asiatic Society) – Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society
The Royal Asiatic Society was founded in 1823, inspired by the model of Sir William Jones’s Asiatic Society of Bengal. From its earliest days, one of the chief ways the Society sought…
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The Royal Asiatic Society Collections Open Evening
On Tuesday 26 March 2019, at 6.30pm, the Royal Asiatic Society will host a Collections Open Evening. As with similar occasions in the past, the evening will feature a series of short…
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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…
