Publications

The RSAA’s history, its personalities and its activities. Some of these publications will be supplied direct from the RSAA while others may be shipped from the publishers.

  • Image of a hanging illustrating the Silk Road, embroidered with ships, carts, elephants, spinning, rolls of fabric and Chinese, Indian and European figures

    Caravanserai Issue 1

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    Launched in 2023 and aiming, as the original caravanaserais did for travellers, to provide news, refreshment and community for RSAA supporters, this first issue includes a selection of articles by members of the society

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    Caravanserai Issue 2

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    Festivals was the theme of the second issue of Caravanserai. Asia has a lot of festivals. Diwali, Eid, the Chinese New Year, Gion Matsuri, Nowruz, Vel, Buraidah, Thadingyut, Bun Pha Vet and Waisak are just a selection

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    Caravanserai Issue 3

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    Rivers are this issue’s theme. They provide food, water, places of settlement, boundaries and connections for peoples, cultures and religions sometimes across vast distances

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    Caravanserai Issue 4

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    For the 2024 Olympics, we looked at sport in Asia. its growth since the Second World War, and the political uses it has been put to by state entities

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    Caravanserai Issue 5

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    We look at some of the ways in which languages and scripts contribute to the diversity of Asian cultures and how they are and have been understood by outsiders

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    Caravanserai Issue 6

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    International Women’s Day in 2025 was the inspiration for this sixth issue of Caravanserai which takes Women in Asia as its theme

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  • Caravanserai Issue 7

    Caravanserai Issue 7

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    From the ancient temples of Southeast Asia to the lingering Soviet brutalism of Central Asia, this issue explores Asian architecture’s fusion of past and present, beauty and utility, pragmatism and extravagance

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    Caravanserai Issue 8

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    For millennia, wildlife has shaped Asia’s identities, economies and belief systems. Rapid development, climate change and shifting land use now strain these ancient relationships. This issue looks at some of the consequences.

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    Round and About in Asia

    £8.00

    Round and About in Asia:  The Royal Society for Asian Affairs Tours 1971-1995, ed. Marinel FitzSimons and Susan Farrington, RSAA 2004

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  • Strolling About on the Roof of the World

    Strolling About on the Roof of the World

    £35.00

    The First Hundred Years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs

    by Hugh Leach and Susan Farrington, with a Foreward by Lord Hurd of Westwell

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