On the first of five visits to Special Collections & Archives this semester, first-year students in the seminar Maps, Territory, and Power in Asia leaned over large tables to peer at maps of the ...

CIR AUREL STEIN delivered the first “Asia Lecture “before the Royal Geographical Society on November 3. He chose for his subject an account of his three expeditions to the Tarim Basin in Chinese ...

Whole skeleton of a ~8,400-year-old individual from Qihe cave, Fujian, China. This individual’s southern ancestry can be found along the coast of mainland southern China and islands in the Taiwan ...

ON Tuesday, March 24, at a meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Sir Aurel Stein read a paper on “Innermost Asia: its Geography as a Factor in History.” It dealt with the part which the ...