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Chinese Eunuch History Revisited at the RAS
Last Thursday, 4 June 2015, we were delighted to host a lecture by Dr Melissa Dale (University of San Francisco) on “Discovering the Real Lives of China’s Emasculated Servants: Chinese Eunuch History...
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George Mak's forthcoming lecture prompts a delve into the RAS Collections
Next Thursday (18th June) we are pleased to welcome George Kam Wah Mak, Research Assistant Professor at David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, who will speak on...
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Happy International Yoga Day
This Sunday, 21st June, has been designated as the first ever International Yoga Day by the United Nations General Assembly. So, in the spirit of celebration, I thought I would discover yoga-related...
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Barwis-Holliday Lecture
Last night we were delighted to host a lecture by Dr George K. W. Mak, Research Assistant Professor at the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University on The Annotation...
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Commemorating the Treaty of Nanking
On June 26th, 1843, the Treaty of Nanking came into effect and Hong Kong was ceded to the British "in perpetuity". Now, with the benefit of hindsight, we know that "perpetuity" lasted 154 years as Hong...
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The Fall of the Ottomans
On Thursday 14th May, the Royal Asiatic Society is delighted to welcome Dr. Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford) who will lecture on The Dardenelles Campaign viewed from both sides of the trenches. This...
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Arabian Nights
As I was struggling to sleep in the heat of last night, I was trying to drean up the lines for a poem to stop myself going stir-crazy. That reminded me of the story of Scheherazade, keeping her life...
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Missionary insights
I have just come back from a week away in Ledbury. Besides being a lovely part of the English countryside to explore, I was also there for the annual Ledbury Poetry Festival. It was a delight to have a...
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Royal Asiatic Society Library collections added to Copac
We are very happy to have added our library catalogue records to Copac. Copac is what librarians call a ‘union catalogue’, which is a type of mega-catalogue unifying holdings information for a number...
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Work Experience with the Royal Asiatic Society
At the age of seven I began my study of the ancient Indian language, Sanskrit. Ten years later I have completed my Sanskrit GCSE and AS level, and my love of the subject has grown immensely. Before I...
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Commemorating Frederick Marryat and his generosity to the Royal Asiatic Society
August 9th will mark one hundred and sixty-seven years since the death of Captain Frederick Marryat, a Royal Navy man who gained a reputation for jumping into the sea to save men who had fallen...
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Vishnu, ascetics and fakirs from the Doyle Collection
It has been an interesting week in the RAS Archives. I have been busy cataloguing the personal papers of Sir William and Lady Anna Maria Jones. Soon their descriptions will be available to read online...
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