March 6th, the Chinese Department of SOAS collaborated with LCI in holding a lecture as one session of the lecture series on Ancient Chinese Scholarship. The lecture, themed “the Diffusion of Scribla Literacy in the Western Han”, was given by Dr. Christopher Foster, translation scholar of ancient Chinese literature & researcher of “Stanley Ho Chinese Studies Center” in Pembroke College. The lecture series is launched in order to introduce traditional Chinese culture to Britain and promote China-UK academic exchanges.