Announcements

Join our board: the RSAA seeks up to four new trustees. In its 125th anniversary year, the Royal Society for Asian Affairs is renewing its mission:  advancing understanding of Asia and promoting Asian Studies, and is seeking up to four new trustees to help lead this next chapter. We are looking for senior figures with…

From 18 July 2025 our postal address will be Nova North, 11 Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5BY.  Our phone number will be unchanged as 020 7235 5122.

We welcome Asian Affairs’ new International Editorial Advisory Board

In 2015-16 the Royal Society for Asian Affairs sold at auction a number of items from its collections.  The sales were controversial, and concerns were raised by RSAA members and scholars in the field.  At the time the Society held that the sales were its only option to ensure its survival.  In late 2022 and…

The RSAA archive has its origins in the Central Asia Society and the objectives of its founders “to maintain in England a central institution for the collection, provision, maintenance and diffusion of information and knowledge”.  It reflects the interests and priorities of the Society’s members and consists in large part of materials donated by them. …