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We are delighted to welcome Mattie Armstrong-Price (Fordham) for the UK launch of their book, Respectability on the Line, University of California Press, 2026. Prof. Armstrong will be in conversation with Dr Aparajit Mukhopadhyay (Kent).

The early modern history of the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) in East Asia is often depicted as an era of political conflict between the king, the Hun’gu faction, and the Sarim faction.

This event draws on the results of a collaborative exploratory study of image-based AI outputs across languages and countries.

The workshop explains the process of editing a birch-bark manuscript, using the example of the Mahāyāna sūtra.

Author Elaine Chiew will discuss the academic research she conducted as an early historian into the self-imaging of Chinese women in early Singapore photography as a limited exercise of agency that formed the background of her novel The Light Between Us. 

Seminar presented by Professor Marco Motta (University of Lausanne) as part of the SOAS Anthropology and Sociology Department Seminar Series

Max WL Wong argues that in traditional Chinese legal culture, the pluralistic normative orders – derived by the interaction of different orders (including Legalism, Confucianism and state law) – had been adapted and adopted by the local communities for many centuries.

Dr Neil Munro gives a book talk on the new volume 'China’s Strategic Culture and Relations Across the Taiwan Strait', examining what China’s strategic behaviour means for cross-Strait security and UK-Taiwan policy.

Documentary Screening of 'A Chip Odyssey', followed by a director Q&A, with the documentary tracing Taiwan’s transformation into a global semiconductor leader.