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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.

Join us for the screening of 'Tegkang' directed by Josh Nawan, Director, an award-winning Sarawakian filmmaker, with an introduction by Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra DSG

As part of the 'Global Taiwan—Literature and Translation Workshop', Dr Aoife Cantrill and Kiera Johnson shares their experiences working with Taiwanese literature and scholarship.

In this inaugural lecture, Professors Emilia Onyema and Lutz Oette will be presenting lectures on 'Africa and International Arbitration: Friend or Foe' and 'Human Rights in Crisis' respectively.

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

This sharing session resurfaces the connection between Southeast Asia and Hong Kong in co-producing the national and Sinophone cultures across the region.

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.