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Mr Dick Wilson

Bio	Dick Wilson edited the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong from 1958 to 1964, winning the Magsaysay Award for Journalism and Literature in Asia for turning that periodical into the leading regional news magazine. Later he was Senior Editorial Adviser to the StraitsTimes group in Singapore and in the 1970s Editor of The China Quarterly at SOAS. His twenty books include The Sun at Noon on Japan and China: The Big Tiger.

Bio

Dick Wilson edited the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong from 1958 to 1964, winning the Magsaysay Award for Journalism and Literature in Asia for turning that periodical into the leading regional news magazine. Later he was Senior Editorial Adviser to the StraitsTimes group in Singapore and in the 1970s Editor of The China Quarterly at SOAS. His twenty books include The Sun at Noon on Japan and China: The Big Tiger.

Lectures to The Society

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Articles in the Journal

Did Japan Declare War?
	Mr Dick Wilson
	Asian Affairs, Volume 31 Number 1	March 2000
The New Role of Vietnam in East Asian Politics
	Mr Dick Wilson
	Asian Affairs, Volume 8 Number 1	March 1977

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Images of Asia

Sign at the Golden Triangle (Thailand, Laos and Burma)

Samarkhand, Uzbekistan

A facade of the Terrace of the Elephants near Angkor Thom, Cambodia

Women with pots near Amritsar, India

Roots and ruins at Ta Prohm temple, Angkor, Cambodia

Statue of Mary overlooking the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan

Forthcoming Events

Wed 30 May A Dance with a Dragon: the Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony at Society of Chemical Industry

Wed 13 Jun AGM (for members only) at 6 pm followed by at Society of Chemical Industry

Wed 27 Jun Where Hornbills Fly: A Journey with the Headhunters of Borneo at Society of Chemical Industry

Wed 11 Jul Tea Horse Road: China's Ancient Trade Road to Tibet at Society of Chemical Industry

Wed 25 Jul Annual Tea Party at The House of Lords

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News

LIBRARY & ARCHIVE: TEMPORARY CLOSURE Shuts 16 May 2012, reopens 1st August 2012 more…

Festival of Asian Literature at Asia House 15 - 30 May 2012 more…

The Bangladeshi Novel The Royal Society of Literature Tagore Memorial Meeting, with speakers Philip Hensher and Tahmima Anam more…

"Yemen: Challenges for the Future" - an international conference (BYS & LMEI) Invitation for scholars to propose papers for conference in November 2012 more…

Ragmala Paintings from India: Poetry, passion, song Exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery: 25 January - 27 May 2012 more…

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Recent Recordings

The Art of Resistance in the Middle East

Ashoka: India's Lost Emperor Charles Allen returns the RSAA to speak about the re-discovery of one of India's greatest Emperors, Ashoka, and the empire he built

The Freedom Factor Humphrey Hawksley discusses how freedoms have come to the world and what can be done to support their spreading in the world

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