Category: Archives

  • Digitization Project

    Digitization Project

    The RAS Library has undertaken various digitization projects to preserve its heritage and archival materials. Copies of the Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society were digitzed and placed online via the Hathi Trust. A more recent effort has been under way in 2024-2025 under the auspices of an agreement between…

  • The China Journal

    The China Journal

    The library contains a number of copies of the China Journal, an English language popular magazine that was published in the International Settlement in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930. This list was compiled by Kyle Chun on May 17, 2017 Note: X 2 denotes that the library has two copies 1923 Sept 1923 X…

  • Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

    Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

    The library contains many back copies of the historic Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and modern copies of the current Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, China. A list of our holdings was compiled by Julie Chun on June 28, 2021. More than one copy is signaled by an…

  • About the Library Archives

    The RAS library archives contain a number of rare and unique items which may be viewed in the library. A RAS membership is required. We are also undertaking a digitization project to scan many of our archive documents to PDF for preservation reasons. We are also compiling a finding guide to our archives, details of…