Series RAS BP/6 - 2023

In 2023 the Society appointed Professor Benjamin Hopkins (George Washington University), Professor Susanne Brandtstädter (Koln), Professor Magnus Marsden (Sussex), Dr Rian Thum (Manchester), and Professor Nile Green (UCLA) to be the adjudicators.

The Prize was won by Dr. Thomas Barrett (University of Oxford), for his thesis Foreigners and the Making of the Chinese Diplomat.

The shortlisted candidates were Dr. Kelsey Granger (University of Cambridge) for Gifts from afar: The Creation of an Imperial Lapdog in Tang-Song China; Dr. Mariano Errichiello (School of Oriental and African Studies) for IIme Ksnum: an Esoteric Interpretation of Zoroastrianism, History and Beliefs; and Dr Yui Chim Lo (University of Oxford) for Imagining the Continent’s Future: China, India and Post-War Asia, 1937-1949.

The archival material consists of a publicity poster (digital) for the award ceremony and 5 digital photographs taken at the event which was held on 25 May 2024.