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China

Country in East Asia

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Images from the collections

Images referencing China

599 images from works
  • China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Yangtze river, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Canton, China: a panoramic view of the city. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • China: a standing Manchu official, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A residence of the dowager Chinese empress. Coloured engraving, 17--.
  • China: protection against nuclear, chemical and germ warfare. Colour lithographs, 1971.
  • A Buddhist master (?) enthroned on an elephant, being presented with a sword-like object by a man and woman. Watercolour with gouache, China (?), 1750/1850?.
  • A Chinese man lighting a pipe. Watercolour.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.

Works from the collections

1,614 works

    • Books

    Hsiang-Ya journal / by Ruth Altman Greene.

    Greene, Ruth Altman, 1896-1986. | Date: 1977
    • Books

    The people's Peking man : popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China / Sigrid Schmalzer.

    Schmalzer, Sigrid. | Date: 2008
    • Books

    The origins of the Science Society of China, 1914-1937 / by Jia Sheng.

    Sheng, Jia, 1956- | Date: 1995
    • Books

    Atlas of cancer mortality in the People's Republic of China / [edited by The Editorial Committee for the Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the People's Republic of China].

    | Date: [1979]
    • Books

    An enumeration of Chinese materia medica / Shiu-ying Hu ; with editorial assistance from Y.C. Kong and Paul P.H. But.

    Hu, Shiu-ying. | Date: 1999

Related topics

Medicine, Chinese Traditional
History, 20th Century
Science
Torture
Punishment
Religious Missions
Materia Medica
History of Medicine
India
Health Policy

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