Sir Aurel Stein "Collegues and Collections"

Sir Aurel Stein

Colleagues
and Collections

Edited by Helen Wang

British Museum Research Publication 184
ISBN 978-086159-1848
© The Trustees of the British Museum 2012

   

This volume, published to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Aurel Stein, presents papers about him, his colleagues and his collections.

Read the introduction (pdf) 
Helen Wang, curator, East Asian Money,
British Museum

Follow the links below to download and read
the full publication.

On Stein, his work and colleagues

Aurel Stein’s Work in the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan (pdf) 
Wannaporn Rienjang

Aurel Stein’s Methods and Aims in Archaeology on the Silk Road (pdf) 
Valeria Escauriaza-Lopez

Aurel Stein’s Dealings with Wang Yuanlu and Chinese Officials in Dunhuang in 1907 (pdf) 
Wang Jiqing

Sir Aurel Stein’s Visit to Japan in 1930: His Diary and Notebook (pdf) 
Imre Galambos

Rudolf Hoernle and Sir Aurel Stein (pdf)  
Ursula Sims-Williams

Aurel Stein’s Calcutta Connection (pdf)  
Susmita Basu Majumdar, Suchandra Ghosh, Anusua Das

Rai Bahadur Lal Singh: Sir Aurel Stein’s Surveying Companion (pdf) 
Daniel Lal Sander and Stephen Sander (Sukwant Singh)

‘Yours ever so sincerely’: Albert von le Coq seen through his Correspondence with Aurel Stein (pdf) 
Catrin Kost

Fraternity on the Silk Road: The Relationship of Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin (pdf) 
Esteban Morin

Recent work on the Stein Collections

Sir Aurel Stein’s Medals at the Royal Geographical Society (pdf) 
Sarah Strong and Helen Wang

Aurel Stein’s Correspondence with Paul Pelliot and Lionel Barnett (pdf) 
Ursula Sims-Williams

A Tentative Listing of the Stein Manuscripts in Paris 1911–19 (pdf) 
Frances Wood

New Data Relating to Aurel Stein’s Expeditions to Iran: Correspondence with Fred Andrews, 1936–37 (pdf) 
Ursula Sims-Williams

The Stein Collection and World War II (pdf) 
Joyce Morgan

Paul Pelliot, Aurel Stein and Chinese Opposition to the Royal Academy’s International Exhibition of Chinese Art 1935–6 (pdf) 
Frances Wood

Bodleian Library, Oxford: Catalogue of the Papers of Sir (Marc) Aurel Stein (1862–1943) (pdf) 
Elizabeth Diamond and T.D. Rogers (updated by Christopher Fletcher)

Archives relating to Sir Aurel Stein’s Fourth Expedition to Central Asia (1930–31) (pdf) 
Helen Wang

A History of the Stein and Central Asian Digitisation Project at the
British Museum (pdf) 
Carol Michaelson

Dunhuang Textiles in London: A History of the Collection (pdf) 
Helen Wang, Helen Persson and Frances Wood

International Dunhuang Project: Working on Stein’s Archaeological Legacy (pdf) 
John Falconer and Susan Whitfield

Appendix: Conferences and Study Days relating to Sir Aurel Stein (pdf)