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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.

Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.

Chinese men harvesting. Gouache.

Hsiang-Ya journal / by Ruth Altman Greene.

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

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

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].

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

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China

Images from the collections

Images referencing China

Works from the collections

Hsiang-Ya journal / by Ruth Altman Greene.

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

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

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].

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

China

Images from the collections

Images referencing China

Works from the collections

Hsiang-Ya journal / by Ruth Altman Greene.

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

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

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].

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

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