Unearthing history: How the Formosa Church News grew from a missionary tool to a space for social commentary Professor Niki Alsford unveils Formosa Church News, a missionary publication that became a platform for local voices, a tool for linguistic preservation, and a record of Taiwan’s evolving identity.
Remitting through crisis: learning lessons from the pandemic As the world confronts ongoing climate, conflict and cost-of-living problems, what can we learn from the pandemic period about people’s remittance practices through times of crisis?
The SOAS China Institute welcomes new Visiting Scholars and Professorial Research Associate Professor Terry Sicular joins the SOAS China Institute as a Professorial Research Associate. Dr Yanwei Lin and Dr Hongxiang Li join the SOAS China Institute as Visiting Scholars from China.
Rules of the Accra Club: An exclusive look at a rare pamphlet for the colonial social club The Special Collections team have acquired the only known surviving copy of a pamphlet showing the social life of British administrators and other European expatriates in West Africa.
Imaging of Asian women in historical photography 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.