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08 Aug

RAS Book Club 8 August - The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World By Marie Favereau

Aug 8, 2022 8 PM - Aug 8, 2022 9 PM
Non-fiction Book Club
28 Jul

RAS History Club July 28: Historical Photographs of China with Robert Bickers

Jul 28, 2022 7 PM - Jul 28, 2022 8:30 PM
RAS History Club
18 Jul

RAS Non-Fiction Club 18 July: The Seven Military Classics Of Ancient China (History and Warfare) by Ralph Sawyer

Jul 18, 2022 8 PM - Jul 18, 2022 9 PM
Non-fiction Book Club
11 Jul

RAS Non-Fiction Club 11 July: Betwixt and Between by Margaret Sun

Jul 11, 2022 8 PM - Jul 11, 2022 9 PM
Non-fiction Book Club
27 Jun

RAS Non-Fiction Club 27 June: Three Tigers, One Mountain by Michael Booth

Jun 27, 2022 8 PM - Jun 27, 2022 9 PM
Non-fiction Book Club
20 Jun

RAS Non-Fiction Book Club 20 June: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education by Yingyi Ma

Jun 20, 2022 8 PM - Jun 20, 2022 9 PM
13 Jun

RAS Book Club June 13: The End of Karma by Somini Sengupta

Jun 13, 2022 8 PM - Jun 13, 2022 9 PM
09 Jun

RAS Online Salon 9 June: The Lasting Influence of Central Asia on Yunnan's Muslims

Jun 9, 2022 7 PM - Jun 9, 2022 8 PM
RAS History Club
25 May

RAS History Club May 25: Mao Suits on the King’s Road

May 25, 2022 7 PM - May 25, 2022 8:30 PM
RAS History Club
08 May

RAS Art Focus Zoom Session May 8

May 8, 2022 4 PM - May 8, 2022 6 PM
29 Apr

RAS Film Club Lockdown Special April 29: Hibiscus Town

Apr 29, 2022 8 PM - Apr 29, 2022 9 PM
21 Apr

RAS History Club April 21: 1978 – a Year of Enormous Importance

Apr 21, 2022 7 PM - Apr 21, 2022 8:30 PM
RAS History Club
17 Apr

RAS Philosophy Club April 17: Journey of a Thousand Miles

Apr 17, 2022 3 PM - Apr 17, 2022 4:30 PM
27 Mar

[RESCHEDULED] RAS Art Focus Mar 27: Places & Spaces – Art in Shanghai

Mar 27, 2022 1:45 PM - Mar 27, 2022
Rongyi Art Museum, Baoshan, Shanghai, China
16 Mar

RAS Film Club March 16th: Mountains May Depart

Mar 16, 2022 7:15 PM - Mar 16, 2022
Li Room at the Radisson Collection Hotel, Xing Guo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
14 Mar

[POSTPONED] RAS Non-Fiction Book Club 14 March: Ambitious and Anxious

Mar 14, 2022 7:30 PM - Mar 14, 2022 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
25 Feb

RAS Stories of Things Feb 25

Feb 25, 2022 7 PM - Feb 25, 2022 9 PM
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
20 Feb

RAS Art Focus Feb 20 | Places & Spaces: Art in Shanghai

Feb 20, 2022 2 PM - Feb 20, 2022 4 PM
Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
17 Feb

RAS History Club Feb 17: Thrills, Spills & Femme Fatales – Pulp Fiction & 1950s Shanghai

Feb 17, 2022 8 PM - Feb 17, 2022 9 PM
RAS History Club
14 Feb

RAS Non-Fiction Book Club 14 Feb: In the Dragon's Shadow

Feb 14, 2022 7:30 PM - Feb 14, 2022 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
18 Jan

RAS Film Club 18 Jan: Dying To Survive

Jan 18, 2022 7:15 PM - Jan 18, 2022
Li Room at the Radisson Collection Hotel, Xing Guo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
10 Jan

RAS Book Club 10 Jan: The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, by Isabella Bird

Jan 10, 2022 7:30 PM - Jan 10, 2022
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
13 Dec

RAS Book Club 13 Dec: Islamic Empires: The Cities that Shaped Civilization, by Justin Marozzi

Dec 13, 2021 7:30 PM - Dec 13, 2021
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
07 Dec

RAS Philosophy Club 7 December: Chan Buddhism

Dec 7, 2021 7 PM - Dec 7, 2021 9 PM
Private Lounge (Changshu Lu), Shanghai, China
04 Dec

RAS Event 4 December: The King, the Marquis, and Their Bronzes

Dec 4, 2021 3 PM - Dec 4, 2021 5 PM
Li Room at the Radisson Collection Hotel, Xing Guo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
30 Nov

Stories of Things 30 November

Nov 30, 2021 7 PM - Nov 30, 2021 9 PM
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
26 Nov

RAS Special Event 26 Nov: AGM and 2021 Journal Launch

Nov 26, 2021 7 PM - Nov 26, 2021 9 PM
RAS Library, Shanghai, China
21 Nov

RAS Art Focus – Places & Spaces: Art in Shanghai – Rockbund Art Museum

Nov 21, 2021 2:45 PM - Nov 21, 2021 5 PM
Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
16 Nov

RAS Philosophy Club 16 November: Mozi

Nov 16, 2021 7 PM - Nov 16, 2021 9 PM
RAS Library, Shanghai, China
15 Nov

RAS Book Club: Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister – Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Nov 15, 2021 7:30 PM - Nov 15, 2021
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
13 Nov

RAS Event 13 Nov: "More Than One Child" Book Launch and Discussion

Nov 13, 2021 3 PM - Nov 13, 2021 5 PM
Red Box, 160 Chengdu Nan Road...
28 Oct

RAS History Club: The Butcher and the Monk – A failed Nazi plot in occupied Shanghai

Oct 28, 2021 8 PM - Oct 28, 2021 9 PM
RAS History Club
26 Oct

RAS Philosophy Club 26 October: Zhuangzi

Oct 26, 2021 7 PM - Oct 26, 2021 9 PM
ideaPod Shanghai, Shanghai, China
25 Oct

*POSTPONED* RAS Fiction Book Club: Strings of Life, by Shi Tiesheng

Oct 25, 2021 7:30 PM - Oct 25, 2021 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
23 Oct

RAS Salon 23 October: The Lost Mosques of Suzhou

Oct 23, 2021 3 PM - Oct 23, 2021 5 PM
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
21 Oct

RAS Film Screening: East Palace, West Palace

Oct 21, 2021 7:15 PM - Oct 21, 2021
Li Room at the Radisson Collection Hotel, Xing Guo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
18 Oct

RAS Book Club: 1964 – The Greatest Year in the History of Japan, by Roy Tomizawa

Oct 18, 2021 7:30 PM - Oct 18, 2021 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
17 Oct

RAS Art Focus – Places & Spaces: Art in Shanghai – Museum of Art Pudong

Oct 17, 2021 2:45 PM - Oct 17, 2021 5 PM
Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai, China
11 Oct

RAS Online Event 11 October: From Coin to Bitcoin—The Design of Money

Oct 11, 2021 8 PM - Oct 11, 2021 9 PM
RAS History Club
21 Sep

[RESCHEDULED: 21 SEPT 19:30] RAS Book Club: China's Good War, by Rana Mitter

Sep 21, 2021 7:30 PM - Sep 21, 2021 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
16 Sep

RAS Film Screening: Eat Drink Man Woman

Sep 16, 2021 7:15 PM - Sep 16, 2021
Li Room at the Radisson Collection Hotel, Xing Guo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
13 Sep

[CANCELLED] Stories of Things

Sep 13, 2021 7 PM - Sep 13, 2021 9 PM
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
12 Sep

RAS Art Focus Group - Places & Spaces: Art in Shanghai – Aurora Museum

Sep 12, 2021 2 PM - Sep 12, 2021 4 PM
Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China
02 Sep

RAS Beyond City: The Ups and Downs of Transformation

Sep 2, 2021 7 PM - Sep 2, 2021 9 PM
Sisters Bar & Restaurant, Shanghai, China
Beyond City
24 Aug

RAS History Club: A Foreign Infusion – The Forgotten Japanese Legacy in Chinese Tea Arts [ZOOM ONLINE EVENT]

Aug 24, 2021 8 PM - Aug 24, 2021 9 PM
RAS History Club
19 Aug

RAS Film Screening: Red Sorghum, by Zhang Yimou

Aug 19, 2021 7:15 PM - Aug 19, 2021
Li Room at the Radisson Collection Hotel, Xing Guo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
09 Aug

RAS Book Club: India's China Challenge, by Ananth Krishnan [IN-PERSON EVENT]

Aug 9, 2021 7:30 PM - Aug 9, 2021 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
20 Jul

RAS Online Salon 20 July: ‘Comrade Literature’—Queer Texts from Offline to Online

Jul 20, 2021 8 PM - Jul 20, 2021 9 PM
18 Jul

RAS Art Focus: Art, Community and the Environment

Jul 18, 2021 2 PM - Jul 18, 2021 4 PM
Komeda Coffee, Shanghai, China
12 Jul

RAS Book Club 12 July: The Chile Pepper in China – A Cultural Biography, by Brian Dott [ZOOM]

Jul 12, 2021 9 PM - Jul 12, 2021 10:30 PM
RAS History Club
12 Jul

RAS Book Club 12 July: The Chile Pepper in China – A Cultural Biography, by Brian Dott [IN-PERSON]

Jul 12, 2021 7:30 PM - Jul 12, 2021 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
03 Jul

RAS Beyond City: Food and the City

Jul 3, 2021 4 PM - Jul 3, 2021 6 PM
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
25 Jun

RAS China Summer Social

Jun 25, 2021 7 PM - Jun 25, 2021 9 PM
Colca (North Bund), Shanghai, China
22 Jun

RAS Salon 22 June: Japan's International Relations and Territorial Disputes [ZOOM ONLINE EVENT]

Jun 22, 2021 8 PM - Jun 22, 2021 9 PM
20 Jun

RAS Event 20 June: Banning the Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean

Jun 20, 2021 3:30 PM - Jun 20, 2021
Wooden Box, Shanghai
20 Jun

RAS Art Focus: On PET bottles, umbrellas and remote villages

Jun 20, 2021 2 PM - Jun 20, 2021 4 PM
RAS Library, Shanghai, China
Art Focus
06 Jun

RAS Book Club Talk: Thousand Cranes for India – Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred

Jun 6, 2021 7 PM - Jun 6, 2021 9 PM
03 Jun

RAS History Club: Sino-US Trade Relationship – From Ginseng and Opium to Garlic and Chips

Jun 3, 2021 7 PM - Jun 3, 2021 8:30 PM
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
29 May

RAS Salon 29 May: Revisiting China’s Early Encounters with First-Wave Feminism

May 29, 2021 3 PM - May 29, 2021 5 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
26 May

RAS Film Screening 26 May: Sunflower, directed by Zhang Yang

May 26, 2021 7:15 PM - May 26, 2021
Li Room at the Radisson Collection Hotel, Xing Guo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
23 May

RAS Art Focus Group – The Art of Rooftop Gardening

May 23, 2021 11 AM - May 23, 2021
Peace Place, Shanghai, China
22 May

RAS Event 22 May: China’s Openness to the West Preceding the Opium War

May 22, 2021 3:30 PM - May 22, 2021 5 PM
Wooden Box, Shanghai
13 May

RAS Beyond City: Heritage Futures in Shanghai

May 13, 2021 7 PM - May 13, 2021 9 PM
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
10 May

RAS Online Salon 10 May: Private Letter Hongs in the Qing Empire [ZOOM ONLINE EVENT]

May 10, 2021 8 PM - May 10, 2021 9:30 PM
03 May

RAS Book Club: 1587 – A Year of No Significance, by Ray Huang [ZOOM ONLINE EVENT]

May 3, 2021 9 PM - May 3, 2021 10:30 PM
03 May

RAS Book Club: 1587 – A Year of No Significance, by Ray Huang [IN-PERSON EVENT]

May 3, 2021 7:30 PM - May 3, 2021 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
23 Apr

RAS Film Club: Reviving Glory – Jazz & Blues à la Shanghai

Apr 23, 2021 7:30 PM - Apr 23, 2021
Punchline Café Auditorium, Shanghai, China
18 Apr

RAS Art Focus: Border Identity/Border Thinking – The Decolonial Perspective

Apr 18, 2021 2 PM - Apr 18, 2021 4 PM
Charming, Shanghai, China
08 Apr

RAS History Club: The Return of the Monkey King?

Apr 8, 2021 7 PM - Apr 8, 2021 8:30 PM
RAS History Club
05 Apr

RAS Book Club: The Victorious Blood, by Hussin Alkheder [ZOOM ONLINE EVENT]

Apr 5, 2021 9 PM - Apr 5, 2021 10:30 PM
05 Apr

RAS Book Club: The Victorious Blood, by Hussin Alkheder [IN-PERSON, GARDEN BOOKS]

Apr 5, 2021 7:30 PM - Apr 5, 2021 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
28 Mar

RAS Beyond City: China Beyond Poverty – Rhetoric and Reality

Mar 28, 2021 11 AM - Mar 28, 2021 12:30 PM
26 Mar

Stories of Things

Mar 26, 2021 7 PM - Mar 26, 2021 9 PM
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
24 Mar

RAS Film Club Special Event: Yan Geling – Celestial Bath and the Journey Onward

Mar 24, 2021 7:15 PM - Mar 24, 2021
Li Room at the Radisson Collection Hotel, Xing Guo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
20 Mar

RAS Salon 20 March: “The Draft of History” – Museum Tour with Zhang Lifen

Mar 20, 2021 3 PM - Mar 20, 2021
Shanghai Library Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei, 80 Caoxi Bei Lu
14 Mar

RAS Art Focus

Mar 14, 2021 2 PM - Mar 14, 2021 4 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
11 Mar

Destination Peking – Revisiting the ‘Foreign Colony’ with author Paul French

Mar 11, 2021 7 PM - Mar 11, 2021 8:30 PM
RAS History Club
01 Mar

RAS Book Club: Superpower Interrupted – The Chinese History of the World [ZOOM ONLINE EVENT]

Mar 1, 2021 9 PM - Mar 1, 2021 10:30 PM
01 Mar

RAS Book Club: Superpower Interrupted – A Chinese History of the World

Mar 1, 2021 7:30 PM - Mar 1, 2021 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
28 Feb

RAS Art Focus – Communication through Connection

Feb 28, 2021 4 PM - Feb 28, 2021 6 PM
My Place Ruin Bar, Shanghai, China
27 Feb

RAS Beyond City: Governing the Urban in China and India

Feb 27, 2021 11 AM - Feb 27, 2021 12:30 PM
Beyond City
25 Feb

RAS Film Screening: Crocodile in the Yangtze – The Alibaba Story

Feb 25, 2021 7:15 PM - Feb 25, 2021
Li Room at the Radisson Collection Hotel, Xing Guo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
18 Feb

RAS History Club: Found in The Myths of Time – with John Darwin Van Fleet

Feb 18, 2021 7 PM - Feb 18, 2021 8:30 PM
RAS History Club
06 Feb

RAS Event 6 February: Inventing the Maritime Silk Road

Feb 6, 2021 4:30 PM - Feb 6, 2021
Wooden Box, Shanghai
01 Feb

RAS Book Club: Soulstealers – the Chinese Sorcery Craze of 1768 [ZOOM ONLINE EVENT]

Feb 1, 2021 9 PM - Feb 1, 2021 10:30 PM
01 Feb

RAS Book Club: Soulstealers – the Chinese Sorcery Craze of 1768 [OFFLINE SESSION]

Feb 1, 2021 7:30 PM - Feb 1, 2021 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
31 Jan

RAS Art Focus: “Cheer Up Flowers” Street-based Public Art

Jan 31, 2021 2 PM - Jan 31, 2021 4 PM
NEXTMIXING, Shanghai, China
22 Jan

Stories of Things

Jan 22, 2021 7 PM - Jan 22, 2021 9 PM
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
21 Jan

RAS Film: Assembly, by Feng Xiaogang

Jan 21, 2021 7:15 PM - Jan 21, 2021 9:15 PM
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
14 Jan

RAS History Club: Sir Edmund Backhouse Revisited

Jan 14, 2021 8 PM - Jan 14, 2021 9:30 PM
RAS History Club
09 Jan

RAS Salon 9 January: Chinese tea study with tea guru Jin

Jan 9, 2021 2 PM - Jan 9, 2021
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
02 Jan

RAS Event 2 January: China's Green Religion

Jan 2, 2021 4 PM - Jan 2, 2021
Wooden Box, Shanghai
23 Dec

RAS Book Club: The Unfinished Revolution

Dec 23, 2020 7:30 PM - Dec 23, 2020
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
20 Dec

RAS Art Focus : Shanghai’s Saturday Drawing Society

Dec 20, 2020 2 PM - Dec 20, 2020 4 PM
RAS Library, Shanghai, China
19 Dec

RAS Film Screening: In the Mood for Love, by Wong Kar-wai

Dec 19, 2020 4:30 PM - Dec 19, 2020
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
17 Dec

RAS History Club: Marco Polo’s Muslim Competitor – Fakhr al-Dīn along the Silk Road

Dec 17, 2020 7 PM - Dec 17, 2020
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
12 Dec

RAS Beyond City: Long Live the City

Dec 12, 2020 4:30 PM - Dec 12, 2020 5:45 PM
The Wooden Box, Shanghai, China
05 Dec

RAS Event 5 December: Chinese and American Poetry in Translation

Dec 5, 2020 4:30 PM - Dec 5, 2020
Wooden Box, Shanghai
28 Nov

RAS China AGM and 2020 Journal Launch

Nov 28, 2020 2 PM - Nov 28, 2020
RAS China Reading Room, Shanghai, China
22 Nov

RAS Art Focus: Dragon Burn Panel Talk

Nov 22, 2020 2 PM - Nov 22, 2020 4 PM
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
15 Nov

RAS Beyond City: Hudec & Gonda Walk

Nov 15, 2020 1 PM - Nov 15, 2020 3:30 PM
Meeting place will be provided to confirmed attendees prior to the event, Shanghai, China
12 Nov

RAS History Club: The Colours of Commerce – The First 130 Years of BASF in China

Nov 12, 2020 7 PM - Nov 12, 2020
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
02 Nov

RAS Book Club 2 Nov: Treason by the Book, by Jonathan D. Spence

Nov 2, 2020 9 PM - Nov 2, 2020 10:30 PM
31 Oct

RAS Event 31 October: Shanghai 1935 – High Life and Nightlife in a Glamorous Metropolis

Oct 31, 2020 4:30 PM - Oct 31, 2020
Wooden Box, Shanghai
29 Oct

RAS Film Screening 29 Oct: A Touch of Sin, by Jia Zhangke

Oct 29, 2020 7:15 PM - Oct 29, 2020
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
27 Oct

RAS Beyond City: Chinese and Western Concepts of the City

Oct 27, 2020 7 PM - Oct 27, 2020 9 PM
The Wooden Box, Shanghai, China
22 Oct

RAS History Club 22 Oct: The Raoul Wallenbergs of China

Oct 22, 2020 7 PM - Oct 22, 2020 8:30 PM
RAS History Club
18 Oct

October RAS Art Focus

Oct 18, 2020 1 PM - Oct 18, 2020 3 PM
ArtCN Gallery, 上海市, China
12 Oct

RAS Book Club 12 Oct: Lost Enlightenment by S. Frederick Starr

Oct 12, 2020 9 PM - Oct 12, 2020 10:30 PM
24 Sep

RAS Film Screening: Black Coal, Thin Ice

Sep 24, 2020 7:15 PM - Sep 24, 2020
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
22 Sep

RAS Beyond City: City on the Sea

Sep 22, 2020 7 PM - Sep 22, 2020 9 PM
The Wooden Box, Shanghai, China
18 Sep

RAS Art Focus Group – Artists and curator panel

Sep 18, 2020 7 PM - Sep 18, 2020
Goethe Open Space, Department of Culture and Education of the German Consulate General, Shanghai
07 Sep

RAS Book Club: The Third Revolution by Elizabeth C. Economy

Sep 7, 2020 9 PM - Sep 7, 2020 10:30 PM
03 Sep

Urban Branding – Rethinking Cities

Sep 3, 2020 7 PM - Sep 3, 2020 8:30 PM
Beyond City
31 Aug

Stories of Things

Aug 31, 2020 7 PM - Aug 31, 2020 9 PM
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
29 Aug

Art and Modernism in Shanghai (Repeat)

Aug 29, 2020 1 PM - Aug 29, 2020 2 PM
Tou-Se-We Museum, Shanghai, China
26 Aug

RAS Film Screening: Mountain Patrol, directed by Lu Chuan

Aug 26, 2020 7:15 PM - Aug 26, 2020
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
15 Aug

RAS History Club: The End of World War II

Aug 15, 2020 2 PM - Aug 15, 2020 3:30 PM
RAS Library, Shanghai, China
RAS History Club
10 Aug

RAS History Club: Old Buddhas, Modern Times – Longmen and Its Fans

Aug 10, 2020 8 PM - Aug 10, 2020 9:30 PM
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
RAS History Club
06 Aug

RAS Beyond City Series: Building Russian Shanghai

Aug 6, 2020 7 PM - Aug 6, 2020 8 PM
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
Beyond City
03 Aug

RAS Book Club: Unruly Waters by Sunil Amrith

Aug 3, 2020 9 PM - Aug 3, 2020 10:30 PM
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
28 Jul

“And what do we know about China?” [ZOOM ONLINE EVENT]

Jul 28, 2020 7 PM - Jul 28, 2020 9 PM
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
19 Jul

Art Focus – Art and Modernism in Shanghai

Jul 19, 2020 1 PM - Jul 19, 2020 3 PM
Tou-Se-We Museum, Shanghai, China
09 Jul

RAS History Club 9 July: Paul Bevan on Intoxicating Shanghai

Jul 9, 2020 8 PM - Jul 9, 2020 9:30 PM
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
RAS History Club
06 Jul

RAS Book Club: China and Japan by Ezra Vogel

Jul 6, 2020 9 PM - Jul 6, 2020 10:30 PM
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
02 Jul

RAS Documentary: Miners, Groom and Pneumoconiosis

Jul 2, 2020 7:15 PM - Jul 2, 2020
The Tavern, Shanghai, China
30 Jun

RAS Beyond City Series: In Conversation with Anna Greenspan

Jun 30, 2020 8:30 PM - Jun 30, 2020 9:30 PM
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
18 Jun

RAS History Club: Japan's China Problem

Jun 18, 2020 7 PM - Jun 18, 2020 8 PM
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
RAS History Club
14 Jun

RAS Art Focus

Jun 14, 2020 1 PM - Jun 14, 2020 3 PM
ART LABOR, 上海市, China
06 Jun

RAS Walking Tour: Xujiahui History

Jun 6, 2020 1:30 PM - Jun 6, 2020 4 PM
Meeting place will be provided to confirmed attendees prior to the event, Shanghai, China
03 Jun

RAS Film Screening: Dearest

Jun 3, 2020 7:15 PM - Jun 3, 2020
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
01 Jun

RAS Book Club: Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra

Jun 1, 2020 9 PM - Jun 1, 2020 11 PM
25 May

RAS Book Club: Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy by Phyllis Birnbaum

May 25, 2020 9 PM - May 25, 2020 11 PM
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
17 May

Chinese artists & Paris in the early 20th century

May 17, 2020 1:30 PM - May 17, 2020
Galerie Dumonteil, Shanghai, China
07 May

RAS History Club: Lu Xun and a Wildly Improbable Bookstore

May 7, 2020 7 PM - May 7, 2020
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
RAS History Club
06 May

RAS Online Event 6 May: A Czechoslovak Founding Father in China

May 6, 2020 7 PM - May 6, 2020
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
04 May

RAS Book Club: China’s Asian Dream by Tom Miller

May 4, 2020 9 PM - May 4, 2020
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
29 Apr

RAS Webinar 29 April: Jörg Wuttke on EU-China Relations during a Pandemic

Apr 29, 2020 7 PM - Apr 29, 2020
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
24 Apr

RAS History Club: Fighting the Foreign – Media Myths in China and Japan [REPEAT]

Apr 24, 2020 7 PM - Apr 24, 2020 8:30 PM
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
RAS History Club
06 Apr

RAS Book Club 6 April

Apr 6, 2020 9 PM - Apr 6, 2020
Online event: Connection link will be sent to all registered participants 24 hours before the event., N/A
26 Mar

RAS History Club: Paul French discusses Murders of Old China

Mar 26, 2020 7 PM - Mar 26, 2020 9 PM
Zoom online meeting, Connection link will be sent to all regi...
08 Feb

RAS History Club 8 February: Zheng He and the Cosmopolitan World of the Indian Ocean

Feb 8, 2020 2 PM - Feb 8, 2020
The Tavern, Shanghai, China
19 Jan

When Art Converges with Heritage Architecture

Jan 19, 2020 2 PM - Jan 19, 2020 4 PM
Ren Space, 133 Shang Wen Lu, Ho...
18 Jan

RAS Salon 18 January: Lijia Zhang

Jan 18, 2020 2 PM - Jan 18, 2020
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
14 Jan

RAS Salon 14 January: Karoline Kan Presents Under Red Skies

Jan 14, 2020 7 PM - Jan 14, 2020
Wooden Box, Shanghai
08 Jan

RAS Film Screening: Spring Fever

Jan 8, 2020 7:15 PM - Jan 8, 2020
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
06 Jan

RAS Book Club: Maoism – A Global History by Julia Lovell

Jan 6, 2020 7:30 PM - Jan 6, 2020
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
16 Dec

RAS Book Club: My Several Worlds – A Personal Record by Pearl S. Buck

Dec 16, 2019 7:30 PM - Dec 16, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
08 Dec

RAS Art Focus: The Past, Present and the Future of the Rockbund Art Museum

Dec 8, 2019 1 PM - Dec 8, 2019 3 PM
Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
05 Dec

S. C. Young – The Rise of an Irish Policeman in Shanghai, 1904–1938

Dec 5, 2019 7 PM - Dec 5, 2019
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
03 Dec

RAS Salon 3 December: Oral Histories of Treaty Port Shanghai

Dec 3, 2019 7 PM - Dec 3, 2019
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
02 Dec

RAS Book Club: The China Lover by Ian Buruma

Dec 2, 2019 7:30 PM - Dec 2, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
30 Nov

WWII in North East Asia – What We Don’t Know, and Why

Nov 30, 2019 4 PM - Nov 30, 2019
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
29 Nov

RAS China Annual General Meeting & Social

Nov 29, 2019 7 PM - Nov 29, 2019 9:30 PM
Rat Tar Art Bar, Shanghai, China
26 Nov

RAS History Club: Shanghai – A Portal to the World

Nov 26, 2019 7 PM - Nov 26, 2019 9 PM
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
18 Nov

RAS Book Club: Lust, Caution & Love in a Fallen City – Two Short Stories by Eileen Chang

Nov 18, 2019 7:30 PM - Nov 18, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
16 Nov

Four Independent Films Created by Artists from the Silent World

Nov 16, 2019 3 PM - Nov 16, 2019 6 PM
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
15 Nov

Stories of Things

Nov 15, 2019 7 PM - Nov 15, 2019 9 PM
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
04 Nov

Postcards from Tomorrow Square by James Fallows

Nov 4, 2019 7:30 PM - Nov 4, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
21 Oct

RAS Book Club: Sandalwood Death by Mo Yan

Oct 21, 2019 7:30 PM - Oct 21, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
19 Oct

RAS Salon 19 October: A History of Mapping Shanghai – Ming Village to International Metropolis

Oct 19, 2019 2 PM - Oct 19, 2019
The Tavern, Shanghai, China
16 Oct

Film Screening: Rhapsody of Spring

Oct 16, 2019 7:15 PM - Oct 16, 2019
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
14 Oct

RAS Book Club: The Patient Assassin – Anita Anand

Oct 14, 2019 7:30 PM - Oct 14, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
14 Oct

Stories of Things

Oct 14, 2019 7 PM - Oct 14, 2019
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
13 Oct

The Role of University Art Museums

Oct 13, 2019 1 PM - Oct 13, 2019 3 PM
NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, China
26 Sep

RAS History Club: Trade Wars – Lessons from the History of US–China Economic Relations

Sep 26, 2019 7 PM - Sep 26, 2019
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
22 Sep

1980s–1990s Shanghai in Photographs

Sep 22, 2019 1 PM - Sep 22, 2019 3 PM
Artling, Shanghai
16 Sep

RAS Book Club: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

Sep 16, 2019 7:30 PM - Sep 16, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
11 Sep

RAS Film Screening: Beijing Bicycle

Sep 11, 2019 7:30 PM - Sep 11, 2019
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
02 Sep

RAS Book Club: City of Devils by Paul French

Sep 2, 2019 7:30 PM - Sep 2, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
20 Aug

Fighting the Foreign

Aug 20, 2019 7 PM - Aug 20, 2019 9 PM
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
18 Aug

Tatsuo Miyajima: Being Coming at Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum

Aug 18, 2019 2 PM - Aug 18, 2019 4 PM
Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
14 Aug

RAS Salon 14 August: The Red Captain – The Diary of Evans F. Carlson, U.S. Marine

Aug 14, 2019 7 PM - Aug 14, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
05 Aug

RAS Book Club: Upheaval by Jared Diamond

Aug 5, 2019 7:30 PM - Aug 5, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
07 Jul

RAS Event 7 July: The Rice Theory of Culture and the North-South Divide in China

Jul 7, 2019 7 PM - Jul 7, 2019
Wooden Box, Shanghai
01 Jul

RAS Book Club: The Shanghai Free Taxi by Frank Langfitt

Jul 1, 2019 7:30 PM - Jul 1, 2019 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
27 Jun

Smart Cities: Beautiful Future or Blade Runner?

Jun 27, 2019 6:30 PM - Jun 27, 2019
Haworth, Shanghai, China
22 Jun

China Love, a documentary by Olivia Martin-McGuire

Jun 22, 2019 7 PM - Jun 22, 2019 9 PM
Radisson Blu Xingguo Hotel, Li Room Ilocated on B1), Shanghai, China
17 Jun

RAS Book Club: The Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Jun 17, 2019 7:30 PM - Jun 17, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
09 Jun

RAS Art Focus: Chinese Scholar Rocks in Persian Gardens

Jun 9, 2019 2 PM - Jun 9, 2019 4 PM
The Pottery Workshop, Shanghai, China
05 Jun

Stories of Things

Jun 5, 2019 7 PM - Jun 5, 2019 9 PM
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
03 Jun

RAS Book Discussion: "Imperial Twilight" by Stephen R. Platt

Jun 3, 2019 7:30 PM - Jun 3, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
02 Jun

RAS Salon 2 June: What the West Can Learn from May Fourth—Crisis and Self-Strengthening

Jun 2, 2019 7 PM - Jun 2, 2019
Wooden Box, Shanghai
31 May

Royal Asiatic Society – Members-Only Spring Social

May 31, 2019 7 PM - May 31, 2019
The House of Roosevelt, 3rd floor lounge, Shanghai, China
20 May

RAS Book Club: I Did Not Kill My Husband by Liu Zhenyun

May 20, 2019 7:30 PM - May 20, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
18 May

RAS Salon 18 May: East Meets West – The "Discovery" of China through Maps

May 18, 2019 3 PM - May 18, 2019
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
12 May

Chinese Characters and Modern Design: Avant-Garde in the Republican Era

May 12, 2019 2 PM - May 12, 2019 4 PM
ArtCN Gallery, Shanghai, China
06 May

Book Discussion: From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra

May 6, 2019 7:30 PM - May 6, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
04 May

RAS Special Event: 4 Voices on May 4

May 4, 2019 3 PM - May 4, 2019
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
03 May

RAS Salon 3 May: Finding KUKAN – A “Lost” Oscar-Winning Film of China

May 3, 2019 7 PM - May 3, 2019
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
28 Apr

RAS Documentary: Nowhere to Call Home

Apr 28, 2019 6 PM - Apr 28, 2019
Writer's Bookstore, Shanghai, China
25 Apr

RAS Event 25 April: Stories of Things

Apr 25, 2019 7 PM - Apr 25, 2019
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
22 Apr

Book Discussion: "Red Poppies" by Alai

Apr 22, 2019 7:30 PM - Apr 22, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
20 Apr

RAS Special Event 20 April: The May 4th Movement and Shanghai Jazz

Apr 20, 2019 7 PM - Apr 20, 2019
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
17 Apr

RAS History Club: Lives in the Inner Chambers

Apr 17, 2019 7:30 PM - Apr 17, 2019 9:30 PM
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
14 Apr

RAS Art Focus: Understanding Jade – Part 2

Apr 14, 2019 1:30 PM - Apr 14, 2019 3:30 PM
RAS Library, Shanghai, China
08 Apr

Book Discussion: "Yukio Mishima (Critical Lives)" by Damian Flanagan

Apr 8, 2019 7:30 PM - Apr 8, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
30 Mar

RAS Event 30 March: Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai – Caring in Times of Precarity

Mar 30, 2019 4 PM - Mar 30, 2019
Cafe Sambal, Shanghai, China
27 Mar

RAS Salon 27 March: Denton Welch – Shanghailander and Settlement Demimondaine

Mar 27, 2019 7 PM - Mar 27, 2019
Li Room at the Raddison Blu Xingguo, Shanghai, China
25 Mar

RAS Event 25 March: Stories of Things

Mar 25, 2019 7 PM - Mar 25, 2019 9 PM
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
24 Mar

Book Talk: "Last Boat Out of Shanghai" by Helen Zia

Mar 24, 2019 2 PM - Mar 24, 2019
RAS Library, Shanghai, China
23 Mar

RAS Members-Only Event: Shanghai in the 1980s

Mar 23, 2019 1 PM - Mar 23, 2019
RAS Library, Shanghai, China
18 Mar

Book Discussion: "Crazy Rich Asians" by Kevin Kwan

Mar 18, 2019 7:30 PM - Mar 18, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
17 Mar

RAS Documentary: Pottery from the Ethnic Minorities in Southwest China

Mar 17, 2019 7 PM - Mar 17, 2019
The Pottery Workshop, Shanghai, China
13 Mar

RAS History Club: Footbinding in China – A Story Told in East and West

Mar 13, 2019 7:30 PM - Mar 13, 2019 9:30 PM
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
10 Mar

The Art of Contemporary Paper-cutting

Mar 10, 2019 2 PM - Mar 10, 2019
Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China
09 Mar

RAS Event 9 March: Covering up Half the Sky—Sexism in the Chinese Language

Mar 9, 2019 4 PM - Mar 9, 2019
Cafe Sambal, Shanghai, China
28 Feb

RAS Event 28 Feb: Stories of Things

Feb 28, 2019 7 PM - Feb 28, 2019
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
24 Feb

RAS Documentary 24 Feb: Are Our Kids Tough Enough? (Episode 3)

Feb 24, 2019 6 PM - Feb 24, 2019
Writer's Bookstore, Shanghai, China
17 Feb

Comparative research on the innovation of modern calligraphy

Feb 17, 2019 2 PM - Feb 17, 2019
Bao Ji Xiang Art Center (宝吉祥艺术中心), Shanghai
13 Feb

Segregation, violence and prosperity in Chinatown New York

Feb 13, 2019 7 PM - Feb 13, 2019 9 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
23 Jan

A History of the Jews in China

Jan 23, 2019 7 PM - Jan 23, 2019 9 PM
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
13 Jan

Rethinking “Human”

Jan 13, 2019 2 PM - Jan 13, 2019
Teddy Lounge, Shanghai, China
07 Jan

RAS Non-Fic Book Club: "Meeting China Halfway"

Jan 7, 2019 7:30 PM - Jan 7, 2019
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
05 Jan

RAS 5 Jan: Screening of Better Angels

Jan 5, 2019 7:15 PM - Jan 5, 2019 9:45 PM
Cafe Sambal, Shanghai, China
16 Dec

RAS Documentary 16 Dec: Are Our Kids Tough Enough? (Episode 2)

Dec 16, 2018 6 PM - Dec 16, 2018
Writer's Bookstore, Shanghai, China
12 Dec

RAS History Club 12 Dec: The Macgregors and the Aquarius

Dec 12, 2018 7 PM - Dec 12, 2018 9 PM
The Tavern, Shanghai, China
09 Dec

Renegades in INK!

Dec 9, 2018 2:30 PM - Dec 9, 2018
ART LABOR, 上海市, China
05 Dec

Power Politics – China-Africa Relations in an Age of Uncertainty

Dec 5, 2018 7 PM - Dec 5, 2018
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
03 Dec

Fiction Book Club: The Moon Opera by Bi Feiyu

Dec 3, 2018 7:30 PM - Dec 3, 2018
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
30 Nov

Members-Only Annual General Meeting and 2018 RAS Journal Launch

Nov 30, 2018 7 PM - Nov 30, 2018
Eleanor Room (The House of Roosevelt), Shanghai, China
28 Nov

Stories of Things

Nov 28, 2018 7 PM - Nov 28, 2018 9 PM
Private venue (Yuyuan Rd), Shanghai, China
26 Nov

RAS Documentary 26 Nov: Are Our Kids Tough Enough? (Episode 1)

Nov 26, 2018 7 PM - Nov 26, 2018
The Tavern, Shanghai, China
19 Nov

RAS Fiction Book Club 19 Nov: Happy Dreams by Jia Pingwa

Nov 19, 2018 7:30 PM - Nov 19, 2018
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
18 Nov

RAS Art Focus 18 Nov

Nov 18, 2018 2:30 PM - Nov 18, 2018 4:30 PM
RAS Library, Shanghai, China
14 Nov

RAS History Club 14 Nov: Across a Darkling Plain – China's Northern Border in the Qing and Republican Periods

Nov 14, 2018 7 PM - Nov 14, 2018 9 PM
Cafe Sambal, Shanghai, China
12 Nov

Collecting China, or Trying To: Dispatches from the Front

Nov 12, 2018 7 PM - Nov 12, 2018 9 PM
Punchline Café, Shanghai, China
05 Nov

RAS Book Club - "Out of China"

Nov 5, 2018 7:30 PM - Nov 5, 2018
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
22 Oct

RAS Book Club - To Live by Yu Hua

Oct 22, 2018 7:30 PM - Oct 22, 2018
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
08 Oct

RAS Non-Fic Book Club: "A Billion Voices"

Oct 8, 2018 7:30 PM - Oct 8, 2018 9:30 PM
Garden Books, Shanghai, China
17 Sep

RAS Fiction Book Club - "Border Town" by Shen Congwen

Sep 17, 2018 7:30 PM - Sep 17, 2018 9 PM
RAS Library, Shanghai, China
10 Sep

RAS Book Talk: "Shanghai Sacred"

Sep 10, 2018 7:30 PM - Sep 10, 2018 9 PM
RAS Library, Shanghai, China
09 May

TUSHANWAN CRAFT SCHOOL in SHANGHAI

May 9, 2018 7:30 PM - May 9, 2018 9:30 PM
RAS Library, Shanghai, China