Category: Archives

The library contains a number of original copies of The China Express and Telegraph, a weekly newspaper published in London, containing information relevant to the Far East. A number of these copies have been digitized into searchable PDF files. 1928 January 05 45.1MB 1928 January 12 43MB 1928 January 26 53.7MB 1928 February 02 44.8MB…

Prior to her retirement in the United States in 2016, long-time Shanghai resident, author, and US Foreign Service Officer Tess Johnston donated part of her personal archive to the Royal Asiatic Society, China. The library, as part of a digitization project jointly undertaken with Duke Kunshan University, has now scanned all nine boxes of papers,…

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 library contains a number of copies of 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 These journals are in the…

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…