China
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:
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Nyasaland, British Honduras, Trinidad, Tanganyika, Iraq, Hong Kong, Nigeria and Straits Settlement, 1924-11 - 1929-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/4/12
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Hugh Clifford [Governor of Nigeria, 1919-25, of Ceylon [later Sri Lanka], 1925-27 and of the Straits Settlements [Singapore and parts of Malaysia], 1927-29], on subjects including the Malay rubber industry and rubber smuggling, the situation of the Chinese in Malaya [later Malaysia] and Singapore, recommending Bede Clifford as the new Colonial Secretary, Clifford's decision to leave Ceylon for Malaya, the financial and political situation in Ceylon, the success of...
Dates:
1924-11 - 1929-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
Observations and calculation made on a voyage in the Glatton, 1763-1764, 1763-03-19 - 1764-10-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/67: 3-39a
Scope and Contents
Sundry observations taken by John Horsley aboard the Glatton, commanded by Richard Doveton, on a voyage to Benkulen and China. Entries are intermittent, with occasional notes; references are also made to Madeira and Java Head.
Dates:
1763-03-19 - 1764-10-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Observations by James Inman, 1802-09-13 - 1804-08-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/68: 177-208
Scope and Contents
A set of observations and related tables made by Inman on a voyage from England to New Holland [RGO 14/68: 177]; at Garden Island, Port Jackson and Farm Cove, near Sydney, New South Wales [RGO 14/68: 178r-192v]; on a voyage of the ship Rolla from Port Jackson to Macau Roads in China, 22 September - 5 December 1803 [RGO 14/68: 193r-198v]; and on Inman’s return voyage from China to England on board the Warley East Indiaman in 1804 (with a meteorological journal for that voyage) [RGO 14/68:...
Dates:
1802-09-13 - 1804-08-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Other travel records, 1945 - 1965
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JVR/12
Scope and Contents
This series comprises passports and miscellaneous documents related to Joan Robinson's travels in Europe, Asia and Cuba. Documents include notes of names (many not in Joan Robinson's hand), maps, forms, guides and ration coupons.
Dates:
1945 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to some material in this collection is restricted while the author is still living, on the ground that it touches on their private or professional concerns. Other material has been reserved because, in the College's opinion, the contents of these files might be considered confidential, or offensive, by living people other than the author. Further information about such restrictions will be provided in the records of relevant items and files.
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Overseas research papers, 1822 - 1979
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/ERL/4
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection contains Leach's published and unpublished writings, research papers relating to his fieldwork in China, Botel Tobago, Burma, Ceylon, India and Nepal, and papers concerning his academic career.
Dates:
1822 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the Leach papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre. Record consultation is by appointment only. In view of its sensitivity, some material is reserved. There is no access to such material for the time being.
Fonds
Papers concerning General Charles George Gordon
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8128
Scope and Contents
Material relating to General Gordon's visit to China in 1880, mainly correspondence between his brother Sir Henry Gordon and Thomas Wade. The papers concern the controversy attached to Gordon's visit, such as H.W. Gordon's claim that Wade and others had encouraged Li Hung-Chang to rebel against the government in Peking, which Wade denied.The collection concerns General Charles George Gordon (1833-1885) and his visit China in 1880, which was prompted by a telegram he received from...
Dates:
1880-1886 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers concerning the "Amethyst Incident" [or "Yangtze Incident"] and papers of Rear Admiral Sir David Scott
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DKNS
Scope and Contents
This collection mainly consists of naval signal logs from H.M.S. Amethyst while under attack by Communist forces on the Yangtze River. This was also known as the "Yangtze Incident" and took place 20 April - 31 July 1949. There are also other papers relating to the incident such as reminiscences of those involved, articles and correspondence. The Rear Admiral Sir David Scott material includes reminiscences of events from his boyhood; through to his retirement and also includes material...
Dates:
1949 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Papers relating to China, December 1983-June 1985, 1983-12 - 1985-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/67
Scope and Contents
Includes: copy of valedictory remarks by Sir Percy Cradock (UK Ambassador to China), 19 December 1983; and papers relating to the visit to London of Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and President Li Xiannian of China, June 1985; with MT's speaking notes at dinner in honour of Premier Zhao Ziyang, 3 June 1985
Dates:
1983-12 - 1985-06
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in October 2015
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to MT's visit to the Far East (Japan, China, Hong Kong & India), 17-28 September 1982, 1980-09 - 1982-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/37A
Scope and Contents
Part 1: includes MT's handwritten annotations; details of administrative and media arrangements and of the British delegation; and note from 6th Lord (Peter) Carrington to MT ahead of the proposed visit, 15 December 1981
Part 1A, closed section, security
Part 2: includes MT's handwritten annotations; notes from DT; details of administrative arrangements and of the British delegation; draft seating plans on the RAF VC 10; and letter from Mrs Indira Gandhi suggesting a stop-off in...
Dates:
1980-09 - 1982-09
Conditions Governing Access:
Parts 1-2 mostly opened in March 2013; sections of part 1 closed (security), see THCR 1/10/37A, part 1A
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to MT's visit to the Far East (Japan, China, Hong Kong & India), 17-28 September 1982 (1), 1982-08 - 1982-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/37
Scope and Contents
Includes: MT's contemporary handwritten notes; and photocopied notes in MT's handwriting relating to China and Hong Kong, prepared for her memoirs in ca. 1992
Also includes: briefing notes on the future of Hong Kong from Ian Gow MP (MT's Parliamentary Private Secretary) and Ray Whitney MP, August 1982; letter to MT from Geoffrey Pattie MP on China and defence equipment, August 1982; copies of Centre for Policy Studies interviews relating to Hong Kong, including report by Dr Elizabeth...
Dates:
1982-08 - 1982-09
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in March 2013
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to MT's visit to the Far East (Japan, China, Hong Kong & India), 17-28 September 1982 (2), 1982-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/38
Scope and Contents
Includes: MT’s handwritten notes and annotations
Includes: schedules for visit to Japan; details of the UK delegation on the visit; with notes on MT's clothes required during the visit, annotated by her; annotated draft of MT's speech to the Japanese Press Club, Tokyo, 21 September 1982; briefing note for John Coles (MT's Private Secretary for Overseas Affairs) from John Holmes (Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary) on MT's forthcoming meeting with Japanese Prime Minister...
Dates:
1982-09
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in March 2013
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to MT's visit to the Far East (Japan, China, Hong Kong & India), 17-28 September 1982 (3), 1982-08 - 1982-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/39
Scope and Contents
Includes: briefing material received before the visit, including letter from Lord (Malcolm) Shepherd, August 1982; copies of notes of MT's meetings with Prime Minister and Premier Zhao Ziyang, China, 22 and 24 September 1982, by John Coles (MT's Private Secretary for Overseas Affairs); notes by Coles of MT's meeting with Vice-Chairman Deng Xiaoping, 24 September 1982; and Foreign Office report on visit by Percy Cradock (UK Ambassador to China), 7 October 1982
Dates:
1982-08 - 1982-10
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in March 2013
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
File
Papers relating to MT's visit to the Far East (Japan, China, Hong Kong & India), 17-28 September 1982 (4), 1982-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/40
Scope and Contents
Includes: (separate) schedules for MT's and DT's visit to Hong Kong; and briefing notes on Hong Kong personalities
Dates:
1982-09
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in March 2013
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
File
Papers relating to MT's visit to the Far East (Japan, China, Hong Kong & India), 17-28 September 1982 (5), 1982-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/41
Scope and Contents
Includes: schedules, administrative papers and menus for visit to China; and details of the British delegation
Dates:
1982-09
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in March 2013
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to visits to China (for the signing of the Joint Declaration relating to Hong Kong) and the USA, December 1984, 1984-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/78
Scope and Contents
Includes: schedules of both visits; and speaking notes for a speech given by MT at a banquet in Peking (Beijing), 19 December 1984; and annotated briefing cards for MT's bilateral meetings with Premier Zhao Ziyang, Deng Xiaoping and Hu Yaobang of China (with MT's handwritten annotations)
Also includes photocopy of the record of meetings between MT, American President (Ronald) Reagan and their senior advisers at Camp David, USA, 22 December 1984, and at the White House, 20 February 1985,...
Dates:
1984-12
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in October 2014
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Passport, 1933
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND A.51
Scope and Contents
China, Japan, Hong Kong.
Dates:
1933
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Personal Papers of Rosemary Bishop, 1944 - 2004
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Bishop
Scope and Contents
The salient feature of the collection is Rosemary Bishop's letters to her parents, especially those written during her years at Girton College: these provide a snapshot of undergraduate life in the mid-late 1950s. There are also miscellaneous personal and biographical items, including some photographs. Lastly, there is a set of diaries of Rosemary Bishop's travels, though most of these appear to consist of typed versions of letters written to her parents while on her travels, thus they...
Dates:
1944 - 2004
Found in:
Girton College Archive
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Personal Papers
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Photograph album, 1900 - 1910
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRME 15/2
Scope and Contents
Comprising photographs of Alaska, 1900-3, including gold prospecting, fishing and a tidal wave; Seattle, 1900, and Detroit, 1903, in the United States; Panama, 1905-6, including construction of the Camacho Reservoir; and China, 1910, including a public execution.
Also with postcards of the Panama Canal.
Explanatory notes were added by Joan Hyde-Cates.
Dates:
1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
Unfit for production.
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Photograph album of China and Japan, 1904
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUCK 3/4
Scope and Contents
Mainly comprising views of Nanking and Kyoto.
With loose photographs, paper tokens and postcards.
Dates:
1904
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Photograph album of China, Hong Kong and Japan
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUCK 3/7
Scope and Contents
Including some hand-tinted photographs.
With loose photographs and paintings on silk.
Also with a photograph of Florence Tuck [sister] and schoolchildren in fancy dress at Chilliwack, Canada.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Photograph album of Japan
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUCK 3/5
Scope and Contents
With loose photographs of China and Japan, including views of Nanking and Japanese military exercises; postcards, including views of Nikko; prints; and a railway ticket.
Including both photographic prints and negatives.
Bound in silk.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Photograph album of Thomas Bullock, circa 1880 - circa 1900
File
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Bullock 2/1
Scope and Contents
The volume comprises sepia photographs mounted on album pages. They include views of Paris, Malta, Port Said, the Suez Canal, Colombo, Cairo (the Pyramids), Aden and China; also cathedrals in southern England, including Winchester and Salisbury. These appear to be copies of photographs by commercial photographers, a few of whom are identified. Photographs from China include some general views, particularly of Beijing [described as Peking]; also Tianjin [described as Tientsin]. There are...
Dates:
circa 1880 - circa 1900
Sub-Fonds
Photographs
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRME 15
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Correspondence and papers mainly relating to a libel action against David Irving and Cassell and Co Ltd over the publication of "The Destruction of Convoy PQ 17".
With a photograph album of Louis Egerton Broome, 1900-10.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Jackie Broome
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Photographs, 1978 - 1985
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/STJN 8/2
Scope and Contents
Including photographs of Richard Stanton-Jones, undated (2); Richard Stanton-Jones and Earl Mountbatten at sea trials of the SR N4 Mk 3 (Super 4), 1978 (2); Richard Stanton-Jones with the Duke of Kent and a delegation from Saudi Arabia, 1981 (3); Richard Stanton-Jones with a delegation from Nigeria, undated [1970s] or [1980s] (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with a delegation from China, 1979 (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with a delegation from Italy, 1981 (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with a delegation...
Dates:
1978 - 1985
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
A small number of files are closed pending review and these closures are marked in the catalogue.
Series
Photographs, 1930 - 1987
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JVR/13
Scope and Contents
This series comprises visual images of Joan Robinson and her family, and several others related to her travels in Asia and the Americas. These are predominantly photographs, but also include slides and postcards.
Dates:
1930 - 1987
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to some material in this collection is restricted while the author is still living, on the ground that it touches on their private or professional concerns. Other material has been reserved because, in the College's opinion, the contents of these files might be considered confidential, or offensive, by living people other than the author. Further information about such restrictions will be provided in the records of relevant items and files.