{"id":10,"date":"2026-01-31T07:48:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raslibrary.org\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:44:23","slug":"welcome-to-the-library-of-the-royal-asiatic-society-china","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raslibrary.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society, China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The library of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ras-china.org\">Royal Asiatic Society, China<\/a>, near the West Bund in Shanghai, houses a rich collection of more than 4,000 books related to Asia, including many old and rare volumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of RAS are welcome to use the facility during opening hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harmony Bay Complex, 888 Dong&#8217;an Lu, Xuhui District, Shanghai<br>\u4e0a\u6d77\u5e02\u5f90\u6c47\u533a\u4e1c\u5b89\u8def888\u53f7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Near Longhua Middle Road Station, (Lines 7 &amp; 12), Exit 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HOURS OF OPERATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday: 1 PM to 5 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday: 1 PM to 5 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday:&nbsp;1 PM to 5 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Questions about the library or its collection can be directed to the <a href=\"mailto:librarian@ras-china.org\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:librarian@ras-china.org\">RAS Librarian, Julie Chun<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-contrast-color has-accent-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-c5bc2692f00b524369b4eb2287cd3eb6\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\"><blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/Lib.raslibrary.org\">Search our catalogue<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The library of the Royal Asiatic Society, China, near the West Bund in Shanghai, houses a rich collection of more than 4,000 books related to Asia, including many old and rare volumes. Members of RAS are welcome to use the facility during opening hours.\u00a0 LOCATION Harmony Bay Complex, 888 Dong&#8217;an Lu, Xuhui District, Shanghai\u4e0a\u6d77\u5e02\u5f90\u6c47\u533a\u4e1c\u5b89\u8def888\u53f7 Near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raslibrary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raslibrary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raslibrary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raslibrary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raslibrary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/raslibrary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/raslibrary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raslibrary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raslibrary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}