Royal Asiatic Society China - Newsletter
Vol 4 No 5 – May 2013
NEWSLETTER
Royal Asiatic Society China
MAY 2013
LECTURES &
WEEKENDERS
Lunghwa Civil Assembly Centre
TALK – Sven Serrano – 14th
WALK – Sven Serrano – 18th
The Society provides a forum for the
development and expression of interests and
expertise from within the local community, and
from around the globe, to inspire and to enrich
cultural life in Shanghai and beyond.
RAS China
BEIJING
CHAPTER
Holds Inaugural
Meeting
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11 April 2013
read on….
An Evening with Liz Barron
Tales and film of Old Shanghai – 16th
Chiang Yee and Three Women
Dr Da Zheng – 21st
BOOK LAUNCH – 25th
Peace at the Cathay
By Peter Hibbard MBE
FOCUS GROUPS
Book Club – Monday 20th
Study Group – Mondays 13th & 27th
Film Club – Sunday 19th
JUNE - SPEAKERS
ADVANCE NOTICE
BOOK LAUNCH – 1st June
Michael Humphries FRCP
Tuesday 18th Professor David Porter
Friday 21st Professor Benjamin A Elman
For full details and updates of all our events
please visit our website
www.royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
Copy deadline for next newsletter 20thof this month
The Royal Asiatic Society China is a branch of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Royal Asiatic Society China - Newsletter
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CONGRATULATIONS
are extended to the new
RAS China – Beijing Chapter which held
its inaugural meeting on 11th April at the
Chang’An Club. Fourteen people attended
and Alan Babington-Smith was duly
appointed as Vice-President Beijing. Plans
are now underway to expand membership,
develop activities and hold an official launch
later in the year.
Paul French delivered the first RAS Beijing
presentation held at the Beijing Bookworm on
Saturday 13th April – speaking about his recent
publication The Badlands. Paul was also guest
author last month, at our special Book Club
meeting in Shanghai … see report below.
For further information about the Beijing Chapter
please email:
enquiry@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
APRIL SPECIAL BOOK CLUB MEETING
In the appropriate setting of the 2nd Floor of T8 in XinTianDi, a full house of guests was treated to a
lively discussion with Paul French of his latest release, The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old
Peking.
Providing additional background and research on 8 of the notorious characters in his best selling
book, Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old
China, this small special China edition (black cover with red ribbon) provides further detail on the
place where the “worlds of entertainment, prostitution, booze and dope came together with the
yearning for sex, easy money and personal oblivion.
Paul told us of the short life (late 1920s-1941) of the Beijing Badlands and the shortened lives of it’s
most memorable characters including:
How the dancer, Tatitana Korovina became Lilian.
How the Madams: Brana and Rosie end up in Peking.
More about the Russian Pimp: Saxsen the Kot.
Two of the Girls: Marie and Peggy
The Dealer: Bad Joe Knauf’s Business and Blades
The King of the Badlands: The Enigma that was Shura Giraldi
As Paul said, ‘you can’t make up characters like this’!
We look forward to Paul’s next book release featuring the Badlands of
Shanghai (near the Jingguo Radisson).
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A note from our President
This month we will be saying Farewell to Peter Hibbard as he prepares to move to the UK with his wife
Susan and their daughter Sasha. It will be a big wrench for him and his family and an even greater one for
RAS China in Shanghai. Peter was the Founding President when we reconvened in 2007 and has been a
continuing guiding light for us. Peter will continue with the RAS Heritage project which will eventually be
carried on our website. You will have the opportunity to hear Peter speak once again, before he leaves in
June, when we host a special Book Launch for his limited edition, Peace at the Cathay at 4pm on 25th May
at the Cincin Bar, Fairmont Peace Hotel.
We also say Bon Voyage to two other Council members this summer. Neale McGoldrick who has attended
many events over the years and always a lively and informative contributor at our Lectures and Study Group
meetings, and Simon Drakeford our Honorary Treasurer and rugby historian whose book on the history of
rugby in Shanghai will be published later in the year.
RAS Council will be hosting a special Farewell Reception for Peter, Neale and Simon on Sunday 12th May.
We thank them all for their great contribution to RAS China and send them our good wishes as they begin
the next chapter in their lives.
We are very pleased to announce that RAS Member, Peter MacInnes, has very kindly agreed to join Council
and was co-opted in April. Peter has lived in China with his family, for many years and will take over as
Honorary Treasurer when Simon leaves.
I would especially like to thank all our speakers and contributors for our May activities. We have several
events lined up for you and do hope to see many of you there.
Katy Gow
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RAS Study Group
2 and 4th Monday of the month
7pm for 7:15pm start at Melange Oasis
Jiashan Market, Shaanxi Nan Lu, Lane 550, No. 37, Building D
Suggested Donation: Members - 20 RMB, Guests – 50 RMB
Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition (published by The Great Courses)
Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition is an epic, comprehensive survey of the East's most influential
philosophers and thinkers. In 36 lectures, award-winning Professor Grant Hardy of the University of North Carolina at
Asheville introduces you to the men and women responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a
wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, including Hinduism, Daoism, Confucianism, Sufism, and Buddhism.
By focusing on these key thinkers in their historical contexts, you'll witness the development of these rich traditions as
they shaped and defined Eastern cultures through the rise and fall of empires, the friendly and hostile encounters with
each other and with the Western world, and the rapid advancements of the modern age.
May 13
May 27
Lecture 4, The Buddha, The Middle Way
Lecture 17, Xuanzang and Chinese Buddhism
Lecture 18, Prince Shotoku, Lady Murasaki, Sei Shonagon
Lecture 19, Saicho to Nichiren - Japanese Buddhism
Visit our website for a full run-down of the Study Group programme for the rest of the year:
www.royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
Co-ordinator: Katie Baker
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RAS Film Club
Chai Bites Lounge
Embankment Building,
Ground Floor, 370 North Suzhou Road
3rd Sunday of the month – 7pm prompt
Suggested donation: Members - 20 RMB, guests – 50 RMB
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RAS Book Club
GloLondon
1 Wulumuqi Lu, near Dongping Lu
Monday 20th - 7pm prompt
Members – 70 RMB, guests 100 RMB, including a drink
20th MAY - This month, the RAS Book Club will
gather to discuss The Civil Servant’s Notebook by
Wang Xiaofang.
Shower (Xizao),
directed by Zhang Yuan, 1999
(92 minutes)
Told through multiple narrators, Wang Xiaofang
crafts a unique and complex tale of official
mischief where civil servants prioritize personal
welfare over public welfare and 'serve the people'
is just about the last thing on their minds...
A northeastern city in Dongzhou province needs a
new Mayor, and there are plenty of hungry
candidates eager for the top job. When the
personal notebook of a high-up official is exposed
to the powers that be - the government's own
internal enforcement brigade – its humble pages
initiate an office wide manhunt for the
anonymous notebook sender, casting a suspicious
eye over everyone.
Copies of the book will be available at RAS events
prior to this meeting. You may also obtain a copy
of the book by contacting the RAS Book Club.
Entrance: RMB 70 (RAS Members) and RMB 100
(non-members) including a drink (tea, coffee, soft
drink, or glass of wine).
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RSVP is essential as space is limited
filmclub@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
RSVP is essential as space is limited
bookclub@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
Co-ordinator: Linda Johnson
Co-ordinator: Sandy Strand
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Lectures - MAY - Weekenders
RSVP to RAS Bookings at: bookings@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
Priority will be given to RAS members
Event notices are sent out one week prior to the event.
Details are also featured on our website: www.royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
RAS Double Feature – Talk & Walk - Sven Serrano – 14th & 18th
TALK: Tuesday 14th May 2013 -7pm for 7.30pm start
Lunghwa Civil Assembly Centre as a Literary Monument
Members 80 RMB Non Members 130 RMB
The Tavern, Radisson Plaza Xingguo Hotel, 78 Xing Guo Road, Shanghai
Lunghwa CAC (1953-1945) was a single island in a
log, world-wide archipelago of WWII era camps and
detention centers for civilians and military prisoners.
It is best known to the English-speaking world as the
wartime home for you Jim the lead character of
J.G.Ballard’s Empire of the Sun, the novel and later Hollywood film
produced by Steven Spielberg. Sven Serrano, a teacher at Shanghai
High School International Division, the working school which occupies the
site of Lunghwa CAC today, will speak on the historical and literary legacy
of the camp and present a narrative that separates fact from fiction. Born in San Diego, he is the
perfect Shanghailander, duel national Sven is married a local Xuhui girl. He moved to Shanghai in 2008
after working for 17 years in Osaka, Japan. He is now developing a phone app project that will meld
old photographs of Shanghai Middle School and their current views so future visitors to the campus can
easily access the past.
WALK: Saturday 18th May 2013 – 10am prompt
A WALK to D,E,F Blocks and the Dew Drop Inn – The Lunghwa CAC site today.
Limited space available. Members 100 RMB – Non Members 200 RMB
Sven will guide RAS members and guests on a short one hour tour of the Shanghai Middle
School/SHSID campus, located at 989 Baise Road, next to the Shanghai Botanical Gardens. Sven will
take the tour to see the six surviving buildings from the Lunghwa C.A.C. site including the former D, E,
F Blocks, the Assembly Centre, the former Guards barracks, and the Commissary.
RAS Member Betty Barr will attend both events. Betty was born in Shanghai in 1933.
She was interned with her family in Lunghwa CAC and attended the Shanghai American
School 1946-`949. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1854 and obtained her
PhD from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in 2008. In between, she was a
teacher in Scotland, Hong Kong and Shanghai. In 2002 Shanghai Boy Shanghai Girl, a
memoir co-authored with her husband George Wang, was published by the Old China
Hand Press. Since then they have written three more books and a revised version of
SBSG was published in November 2011.
Shanghai Boy Shanghai Girl: Lives in Parallel
by George Wang and Betty Barr
This book includes chapters about the camp and also drawings and a sketch map. The book can be
purchased from: The Old China Hand Reading Room at 27 Shaoxing Lu, off Shaanxi Nan Lu.
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Thursday 16th May – at RAS Library – 7pm
Members 30 RMB
Non Members 80 RMB
AN EVENING with LIZ BARRON
Join us for a glass of wine, and tales of old Shanghai
Sharing notes from her Grandfather’s diary, her Grandmother’s letters and a film
from their time in Shanghai.
My Grandfather W.A.L Pardoe, left Barry in Wales, when he was about 21, to travel to
Shanghai where he had a job as second surveyor with the Shanghai Municipal Council.
He went by train and I have a copy of the diary he kept on his trip through Europe,
Russia and Siberia.
Grandpa met and married Granny in Shanghai and my Dad and his brothers and sister
were born there. The boys came back to England to school when they were about 11
and Granny came back in 1936 with my Aunt Jane leaving Grandpa to follow in 1940
Since I was a very little girl I had wanted to go to Shanghai and used to love to look
at the Chinese things which Granny had in their house in Somerset
I have always been greedy for information about Dad and Grandpa’s time in Shanghai
and used to say that when I finally received a promised inheritance from my Granny's
estate, I would go to Barry Station in Wales and ask for two single tickets to
Shanghai!
Deciding to spend some of our children's inheritance brought the chance of a “big trip”
nearer and once I noticed the date Grandpa left Wales there was no doubt about when
and where we would go!
Grandpa left Barry on the 15.40 train on April 20th 1913 and we will leave Barry on
the 15.40 train exactly 100 years later. We will travel the same route by train and
ferry and hope to replicate some of the photos I have of Grandpas trip and of the first
months he was in Shanghai.
On his first day in Shanghai he went to the races and he stayed at “The Club”,
Ravenscourt, both of which I have some lovely pictures of.
I will share notes from his diary and mine. I have a film he took of their life
in Shanghai and I have letters Granny wrote home in 1927 which I will quote
from and which I hope will amuse you.
Being in Shanghai will be a life's ambition met and I look forward to it very much
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Tuesday 21st – RAS Library – 7pm
Members 30 RMB Non Members 80 RMB
DR DA ZHENG - Chiang Yee and Three Women
Chiang Yee (1903-1977), best known for his Silent Traveller series, was one
of the most successful Chinese writers in the English language. While he
was often celebrated for his literary and artistic accomplishments overseas,
very few people knew the difficulties and challenges he had experienced. The
talk will focus on three women, who had each played an important role in
his personal life and career. A revelation of these
relationships will help us gain a better understanding of
Chiang Yee as well as a deeper appreciation of the
significance of women in socio-cultural development and
immigrant history.
Da Zheng is professor of English and director of the Asian
Studies Program at Suffolk University. A Shanghai native, he
attended graduate school at Boston University in 1986, where he received his PhD in
English. His recent publications being Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveller from the East
(2010). He is now working on a biography of Shih-I Hsiung, who wrote the popular
English language play Lady Precious Stream and the novel The Bridge of Heaven.
Saturday 25th - BOOK LAUNCH - 4pm
Cincin Bar Fairmont Peace Hotel
PETER HIBBARD MBE - PEACE AT THE CATHAY
Waking into the Peace Hotel on his first visit to Shanghai in February
1986 was an act that changed the course of Peter Hibbard’s life. He
was confounded by the building and those of its neighbours along the
Bund and left determined to find out more. A major breakthrough
came in 1988 whilst he was working in Beijing when the forbidden
doors to the historic foreign language collection at the National
Library of China were thrown open to him allowing the completion of a
first draft of the book in 1991. Twenty-two years on, and on the eve of
his departure from China, his distant ambition has been realised with
the publication of Peace at the Cathay.
Hibbard’s enchantment with the former Cathay Hotel never faded over the
years and he was the official historian for architect’s Hirsch Bedner
Associates during the recent renovation. He considers himself very fortunate
in chronicling what he believes was the finest, most visionary, hotel of its
time and of having made many friends along the journey - among them Sir
Victor Sassoon’s closest surviving relatives and descendants of George
Leopold Wilson, the Far East’s greatest and unsung British architect of his
era. Members 80 RMB Non Members 130 RMB
Earnshaw Books’ hardback limited edition of this highly informative and
illustrated book will be on sale at a special price of RMB350 for RAS
members and RMB 380 for guests. Pre-order with RSVP to make sure you reserve a copy.
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BOOK LAUNCH - BOOK LAUNCH - BOOK LAUNCH
Saturday 1st June – RAS Library – 4pm
MICHAEL HUMPHRIES FRCP
'Surgeon on the China Seas. The Journal of
Charles Courtney, Surgeon RN recounting
experiences and observations of the Second
Opium War, 1856 – 1860’
Disease, accidents and battle injuries in foreign climes have been the
lot of naval surgeons throughout history and fortunately many
accounts of extraordinary experiences survive, having been
meticulously recorded in journals. This is one such example, the
journal of Naval Surgeon Charles Courtney who served in the China
Squadron in the mid-nineteenth century. It is a unique and hitherto
unpublished account of his travels and observations in a rapidly
changing and dramatic era in Chinese history.
The original journal is in the form of a leather bound book written in longhand that documents
visits to ports along the China coast from Canton to Shanghai and also describes a short visit to
Japan to install the first ever British Consul to Hakodate. The journal is an eyewitness account of
significant historical events including the Canton campaign during the Second Opium War and of
the failed assault on the Taku forts in 1859. In his deployment Courtney was required to operate
on sailors with dreadful injuries under battle conditions as well as keeping the ship’s crew in the
best possible state of health, literally ‘fighting fit’. In addition he was required to manage a wide
variety of illnesses such as malaria, typhoid, dysentery, typhus and the ever present ‘gleet’ and
‘pox’.
Despite these onerous duties, Courtney found time to make regular entries to his journal which
describe in detail the topography, medical environment, people and customs encountered along
the coasts of China and Japan. The journal also contains essays on opium smoking and foot
binding and also a treatise on Chinese medical literature written together with renowned
sinologist Alexander Wylie during Courtney’s sojourn in Shanghai. This treatise is one of the
earliest contributions by westerners to catalogue and acknowledge the contributions of Chinese
medical scholars to our understanding of the medical sciences. Having been discovered by
chance, the journal is a rich resource for those with an interest in Chinese, naval or medical
history. Members 30 RMB Non Members 80 RMB
Michael Humphries FRCP is a respiratory physician currently engaged in
clinical research who has lived in Hong Kong/China for nearly 30 years.
Following residency appointments in London he moved to Hong Kong in 1984
and was subsequently appointed Consultant Physician to the Ruttonjee
Sanatorium. He moved to China in 1997 and has held a number of
appointments in pharmaceutical medicine and is currently based in Shanghai.
Michael is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians [Lond, Edin] and Honorary
Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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May Opening Hours
Wednesday 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th: 2 - 5pm
Saturday 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th: 2 – 5 pm
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Djordjevic, Nenad ed., Sapajou: The Collected Works of Old
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Shanghai’s Greatest Cartoonist (150)
Madsen, Axel, Silk Roads: The Asian Adventures of Clara and
André Malraux (80)
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Bickers, Robert, Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in
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Basu, Kunal, The Opium Clerk
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An A.H.A.L. publication, Party Like It’s 1984, Short Stories from 56.
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Menzies, Gavin, 1421: The Year China Discovered the World 58.
Gardam, Jane, The Man in the Wooden Hat
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Hong Kong Writer’s Circle, Sweat and the City
Lee, Janice Y. K., The Piano Teacher
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Various authors, Betty Ting trans., The Stone Statue of an Ancient
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Hero and other Chinese tales
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Lanchester, John, Fragrant Harbour
Zhou Ji
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Ha Jin, The Crazed
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Wynd, Oswald, The Ginger Tree
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Reuss, Frederick, Mohr: A Novel
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Jaivin, Linda, A Most Immoral Woman: A Novel
Gardam, Jane, Old Filth
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Qiu Xiaolong, A Loyal Character Dancer
Buruma, Ian, The China Lover
Hong Ying, The Art of Love
Elegant, Simon, A Floating Life: The Adventures of Li Po
Acurio, Gaston, Recipes from Peru
Kuo, Alex, The Panda Diaries
Jernigan, Muriel M., Forbidden City
Tsukiyama, Gail, Women of the Silk
Williams, Adam, The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure
Norton, Bret, The Golden Lotus: The Erotic Essence of China
Whatif? The Innovation Company, Sticky Wisdom: How to Start a
Creative Revolution at Work
A’Rabbit, Shamus, illustrations by Sapajou, China Rhymes: Two
Classics of Old China Coast Poetry
Feil, Charles, Maine: A View from Above
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Castro, Brian, Shanghai Dancing
Wang, Annie, The People’s Republic of Desire
NTC Publishing Group, Teach Yourself Chinese: a complete
course for beginners
Studwell, Joe, The China Dream: The Elusive Quest for the
Greatest Untapped Market on Earth
Keltner, Kim Wong, The Dim Sum of All Things
Hilton, James, Lost Horizon
Han Suyin, A Many-Splendoured Thing
RMB 50
Gompertz, G. H., China in Turmoil: Eye-witness 1924/1948
Pan, Lynn, Tracing it Home: Journeys Around a Chinese Family
McCormick, Elsie, The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby
Wang, Barr, Shanghai Boy, Shanghai Girl: Lives in Parallel
Pringle, Henry F., Bridge House Survivor, Experiences of a
civilian prisoner-of-war in Shanghai & Beijing 1942 – 1945
Pan, Lynn, Tracing it Home: Journeys Around a Chinese Family
Trevor-Roper, Hugh (Sir), Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of
Sir Edmund Backhouse
Wei, Hui, Marrying Buddha
Djordjevic, Nenad, Old Shanghai Clubs & Associations: A
Directory of the Rich Life of Foreigners in Shanghai from the
1840s to the 1950s
Mann, James, About Face: A History of America’s Curious
Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton
RMB 5 – 10 (ART) (language stated)
Human Landscape, Tang Shu & Zhong Shan, English
A Girl’s Right to Making-Up, Zhang Ping, Bangkok, 2005, Eng
& Ch
A Poetical Abstract, Li Lei, 2006, English & Chinese
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Feng Feng, 2004, Eng &
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Tune of a Song as If A Dream, Feng Feng, no date (2 copies), ‘’
River Flows East, multiple media, 2010, English & Chinese
TAO, Li Lei, artist, English & Chinese
Ost+West, multiple artists, Shg. Art Museum, 2002, Ger & Ch
Metaphysics 2001 – Abstract Art Exhibit, Shg. Art Museum,
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Code: China, multiple artists, 2005, Chinese
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Tinniswood, Adrian, The Art Deco House (100)
Samuels, Charlotte, Art Deco Textiles (100)
Benton, Benton and Wood, Art Deco: 1910 – 1939 (250)
Khan, Hasan-Uddin, International Style: Modernist Architecture
from 1925 – 1965 (100)
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Berko, Viviane, 19 Century European Virtuoso Painters (250)
RAS Library - Directions
The Sino-British College, USST
1195 Fuxing Zhong Lu, near Shaanxi Lu
Shanghai, 200031 PRC
上海市
中路1195号
上海理工大学中英国际学院
Fuxing Zhong Lu/Shaanxi Nan Lu
Enter the main gate and turn right towards the SBC
Learning and Resource Centre Building with the white
balcony. The RAS Library is situated on the ground floor
just inside the main entrance to the left of the staircase.
Members may borrow two books
Refundable Deposit: 500 RMB (cash)
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RAS China in Shanghai
Monograph Series
with Hong Kong University Press
Both Lao She in London by Anne Witchard and Knowledge is Pleasure by Lindsay Shen are
now available on Amazon Kindle.
Hard copies are available for purchase at RAS events and during library opening hours. To
reserve your copies email enquiry@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn putting “Monographs” in the
subject box.
The monographs have achieved wide acclaim since their publication last year. Reviews of
Lao She in London include:
"A beautifully written book that combines literary biography with a remarkably succinct account of British
modernism and an evocative portrait of interbellum London, as viewed through Chinese eyes. Anne
Witchard reminds us eloquently of the key role played by Chinese influences - both classical and modern in literary modernism, and makes a great contribution to our understanding of Lao She's London years."
Julia Lovell, Birkbeck College, University of London
and for Knowledge is Pleasure:
“This is a sensitive and elegantly written biography of one of the most passionate Sinologists of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author moves fluidly between closely shadowing Florence
Ayscough’s remarkable life and immersion in Chinese culture and stepping back to illuminate her setting and
kindred spirits. Those previously familiar with only a few of Ayscough’s pioneering achievements will find
in this monograph a coherent narrative unfolding before them; those for whom she is an unknown name are
in for the delight of discovery. Lindsay Shen is to be admired for recognizing that this impressive story is
worth telling and for giving it such vividly human character. “
Elinor Pearlstein, Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Art Institute of Chicago
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RAS China Council Members 2012-2013
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Vice Presidents – Tess Johnston, Mike Nethercott, Jan Flohr
Hon Secretary – Patricia Lambert
Hon Treasurer – Simon Drakeford/Peter MacInnes
Hon Programme Director - vacant
Hon Journal Editor - vacant
Hon Librarian – Ed Allen
Hon Research & Publications Director – Paul French
Council Member – IT matters – Lynn Fawcett
Council Member – Communication - Alexandra Hendrickson
Council Member - Membership – Wendy Stockley
Council Member – Susie Gordon
Council Member – Peter Hibbard
Council Member – Liz Jennings
Council Member – Neale McGoldrick
Council Member – Ian Crawford
Council Member – Peter Harris
Vice President Suzhou Chapter – Bill Dodson
Vice President Beijing Chapter – Alan Babington-Smith
Enquiries: enquiry@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
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British Consulate Shanghai
HON VICE PRESIDENTS
Carma Elliot CMG OBE,
Nenad Djordjevic,
Professor Liu Wei
PAST PRESIDENTS
2007-2011 – Peter Hibbard MBE
Membership: membership@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
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RAS MEMBERSHIP FORM
Any foreign passport holder interested in Asian culture and in promoting the aims of the Society may apply for
membership. (PRC law unfortunately prohibits us from admitting Chinese nationals.)
The Society operates a rolling membership system – membership is valid for one year from the date of
registration. Payments are only possible in cash – please remit your fee and completed form to a Council
member at one of our events.
PLEASE VISIT the Society’s website for up-to-date news of all events.
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