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GCPP Needham 1/2/7

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Chinese pass cards for Dorothy Needham, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Needham 1/2/7
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1) Chinese pass card (note [in Joseph Needham’s hand] on the envelope in which it was found reads: ‘This is a 'passport' or permit issued to Dorothy Needham in Aug 1945 by the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Nationalist Govt of China. It request[s] that the holder be protected, treated with due respect, and facilitated in her affairs by all organs of the army & police’); contains b/w photograph of D N;
2) ‘Wartime Dorothy Needham name card’. In Chinese.

Dates: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Dorothy Needham's estate passed to her late husband Joseph. It is now held with his by the Needham Research Institute, 8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF.