Rujivacharakul lectures at SOAS in London

On December 13, Professor Vimalin Rujivacharakul gave a lecture at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, as part of SOAS's 2016 East Asian Studies Seminar Series. Titled "The Light behind the Buddha's Abode," the lecture examined Japanese adventures and explorations of archaeological relics and sites, interweaving three separate cases of Japanese research in early twentieth-century China from the first-ever field research at the Forbidden City, to adventurous discoveries of Buddhist architectural monuments in Shanxi and the wartime discovery of Han-dynasty murals at Beiyuan, Liaoning Province.