Trump 2.0: US Policy Towards Asia
A two-day online conference hosted in partnership with the FCDOA and the IIAS. 6 & 7 November 2025 13.00-17.00 GMT
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Looting the Silk Road: the re-discovery of Dunhuang
Sean Paterson is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society living in Guangzhou A small town in Gansu is having something of a moment. Dunhuang, famous for its treasure-troves of Buddhist art and hoard of ancient manuscripts, and for the underhanded way that foreign adventurers pilfered huge quantities of both, is back in the limelight….
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China’s road to Central Asia: the re-development of the Hexi Corridor
Sean Paterson is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society living in Guangzhou Hong Kong is often referred to as ‘the gate to China’, and even today, it’s common to hear the broader Pearl River Delta megalopolis referred to in similar terms. Some might say the same of Shanghai. However, those who focus on the…
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Literary and Photographic Legacies of Russia in the Chinese City of Harbin
Julius Kochan, RSAA Travel Awards 2024 Recipient, with guest host Dr Winnie King
25 June 2025, 14.00 BST Online -
Online Religion in Contemporary China
Mengyuan Tian, RSAA Travel Awards 2024 recipient, with guest host Professor Astrid Nordin
9 July 2025, 14.00 BST Online -
How to build a city, fast: life in one of China’s ‘new areas’
Sean Paterson is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society living in Guangzhou Many of us in the UK are familiar with the trope of a old man taking his grandson for a walk and saying, ‘all this was fields when I was a boy’. In many parts of China, it could do with a…
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Faxian and China’s Efforts to Court Sri Lanka
Marcus Andreopoulos is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation and a Subject Matter Expert with the Global Threats Advisory Group at NATO’s Defence Education Enhancement Programme Having elected a new president and government at the end of last year, Sri Lanka looks set to chart a new course in its approach to foreign policy. Since…
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Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire
Raffaello Pantucci
11 December 2024 14.00 GMT
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The Invention of Everything: Joseph Needham and the Rediscovery of Chinese Science
Sean Paterson is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society living in Guangzhou In 1620, the great polymath Francis Bacon published his magnum opus, the Novum Organum. Among an early draft of the scientific method, he considered three inventions that had, in his own lifetime, turned the world upside down. ‘It is well to observe…
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The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island will Dictate the Global Future
Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. He is the author of the newly published book The Taiwan Story. In mid-October 2024, the second occurrence of military exercises around the coast of Taiwan, which the Chinese call `Joint Sword’, have apparently just concluded. The…
