{"id":11823,"date":"2019-07-22T10:57:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T09:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/?p=11823"},"modified":"2021-08-30T10:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T09:44:50","slug":"on-the-silk-road-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/on-the-silk-road-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Silk Road in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society held its first summer course on the \u2018Silk Road\u2019 from the 8th \u2013 11th July.\u00a0 We had 8 attendees and Dr Susan Whitfield lectured on the history of the Silk Road trade routes, as well as the activities of 20th century explorers, aspects of\u00a0 silk production, books and printing, glass, ceramics and metalware. Dr Alison Ohta talked about the history of the Islamic book and the transfer of ornament. Participants were able to view Persian manuscripts in the Society&#8217;s collections, along with photographs of archaeological excavations taken by Sir Marc Aurel Stein, the renowned archaeologist and explorer of the Silk Road. On Wednesday afternoon, participants joined a guided walk and lecture by Dr Peter Coles, examining black, white and paper mulberry trees growing in St. James\u2019 Park.\u00a0 This photo shows a green parakeet enjoying the mulberries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11826 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_2379.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Attendees also visited the British Library, where M\u00e9lodie Doumy of the International Dunhuang Project presented important Tangut, Khotanese, Sogdian and Uighur manuscripts from the collection. It was an intensive but enjoyable week and the Society would like to extend our warm thanks and appreciation to those who signed up and contributed to the engaging discussions that accompanied the lectures every day. We hope to hold it again next year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11825 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Society is pleased to be able to host a lecture next week, at 6.30pm on Tuesday 30 July, when Dr Sarah Tiffin will deliver a lecture on &#8220;Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in The History of Java&#8221;. We hope you will be able to join us then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society held its first summer course on the \u2018Silk Road\u2019 from the 8th \u2013 11th July.\u00a0 We had 8 attendees and Dr Susan Whitfield lectured on the history of the Silk Road trade routes, as well as the activities of 20th century explorers, aspects of\u00a0 silk production, books and printing, glass, ceramics and metalware.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508],"tags":[758,1265,520,1155],"class_list":["post-11823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection-highlights","tag-collections","tag-learning","tag-royal-asiatic-society","tag-silk-road"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16800,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions\/16800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}