Shanghai: The Story of China’s Most Dynamic City
An online lecture with Professor Michael Dillon, moderated by Professor Kerry Brown.
15 October 2026 14:00 BST
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Xi Jinping Thought and the Chinese Party-State: Power, Prosperity and Security
An online panel discussion with Dr Chi Zhang, Dr Olivia Cheung. Dr Victor Shih and Professor Sarah Eaton. Moderated by Professor Ho-fung Hung.
16 April 2026 18.00 – 19:30 BST -
Robert Fortune and the Great Tea Heist
Sean Paterson is a member of the RSAA living in Guangzhou There has been much hand-wringing in the press about how Brits, especially those under thirty, are abandoning tea for coffee. The usual suspects blame Americanisation, but what many don’t realise is that the public are simply switching one Asian drink for another. Coffee is…
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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…
