Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society
Author | : Royal Central Asian Society |
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Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
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Author | : Royal Central Asian Society |
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Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
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Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
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Genre | : Asia, Central |
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Author | : Royal Central Asian Society |
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Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Eastern question (Central Asia) |
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Author | : Royal Central Asian Society, London |
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Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
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Author | : Susan Farrington |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2003-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134426682 |
This volume covers the first one hundred years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, formerly the Royal Central Asian Society. It traces its fons et origo in the Central Asian Question, within the context of the 'Great Game', and continues its fascinating chronology through the two World Wars to the present day. There are separate chapters on its widely drawn membership, variety of activities and archive collection. Throughout the pages are glimpses and vignettes of some of its extraordinary, even eccentric, members and their astonishing adventures. The wealth of factual and often amusing detail makes it a very lively account, which is also valuable as a work of reference for all interested in Asia. The book is generously illustrated and includes some of the Society's unique archival photographs not previously published.
Author | : Hugh Leach |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415298575 |
This volume covers the first one hundred years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, formerly the Royal Central Asian Society. It traces its fons et origo in the Central Asian Question, within the context of the 'Great Game', and continues its fascinating chronology through the two World Wars to the present day. There are separate chapters on its widely drawn membership, variety of activities and archive collection. Throughout the pages are glimpses and vignettes of some of its extraordinary, even eccentric, members and their astonishing adventures. The wealth of factual and often amusing detail makes it a very lively account, which is also valuable as a work of reference for all interested in Asia. The book is generously illustrated and includes some of the Society's unique archival photographs not previously published.
Author | : Rosie Llewellyn-Jones |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1837641706 |
During the darkest days of the Second World War a select group of people gathered together in Mayfair to listen to a series of secret lectures organised by the Royal Central Asian Society (now the Royal Society for Asian Affairs). Lecturers and their hand-picked audience examined fast-moving events in the Middle East, Persia and Russia with the intention to propose strategies for Britain's post-war international role. The lecturers were chosen for their inside knowledge of these countries: a British General who had visited Russia's front-line held against the German invasion; an RAF officer who was in Iraq during the pro-German coup by Rashid Ali, and the subsequent defence of the Habbaniya air base; a Persian-speaking British diplomat stationed in Teheran; a Mancunian of Lebanese descent who spoke frankly about Arab hopes and fears; a Home Officer advisor sent to Moscow to inspect its fire-watching arrangements; and a Polish countess forcibly transported to a collective farm in Siberia, among others. Secrecy surrounded these lectures many of the scripts were marked 'Secret' or 'Confidential'; they were not published in the Society's Journal, and the audience was warned not to reveal the topics discussed outside the Clarges Street premises. The discussions which followed the lectures were held in the knowledge that frank views could be freely expressed, and are included in this volume. Although so much has changed in the international arena, these seventy-year old lectures, only recently rediscovered in the Society's Archives, have a peculiar poignancy and relevance in understanding today's unquiet Middle East and how war-time events and strategies were to shape post-war policy with regard to Arab nationalism and Arab unity.
Author | : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland |
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Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : Asia |
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Has appendices.
Author | : James C. Y. Watt |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 0870998250 |
The material presented in this volume significantly extends what has been known to date of Asian textiles produced from the Tang (618-907) through the early Ming period (late 14th-early 15th century), and new documentation gives full recognition to the importance of luxury textiles in the history of Asian art. Costly silks and embroideries were the primary vehicle for the migration of motifs and styles from one part of Asia to another, particularly during the Tang and Mongol (1207-1368) periods. In addition, they provide material evidence of both the cultural and religious ties that linked ethnic groups and the impetus to artistic creativity that was inspired by exposure to foreign goods.