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China (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

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Kow-loung [Kowloon] Peninsula, Hong Kong Harbour, 1870 - 1900

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/76
Scope and Contents

268 x 204 mm. View, probably from Bonham Road, looking north eastwards across the Chinese houses of the western section of Victoria, over the Harbour and towards Kowloon.

Dates: 1870 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Kowloon, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4519
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format).

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Kowloon Harbour [Hong Kong, 1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/6
Scope and Contents

271 x 198 mm. An almost identical view to the second print from the right in the panorama at Y3077C/1. This view appears to have been taken on the same occasion, but a few moments earlier.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Kowloon Observatory, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4521
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format).

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Kulangsu, Amoy [c 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/29
Scope and Contents

257 x 208 mm. View from a hill on the small island of Kulangsu looking down on the town and across the bay towards the town of Amoy itself. The town of Amoy is situated on the south west corner of Amoy Island, with Kulangsu Island in the bay facing the town. Kulangsu was first occupied by a British garrison in 1842, but was not made an international settlement until 1903.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Kulangsu, Amoy [c 1900], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/30
Scope and Contents

258 x 208 mm. Continuation of the view seen in Y3077C/29, looking over Kulangsu towards Amoy.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Kulangsu, Amoy [c 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/31
Scope and Contents

250 x 212 mm Duplicate of Y3077C/30.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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

Kunming, 1949

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K/23-27
Scope and Contents

55 x 80 mm. View of city streets and Dian Lake.

Dates: 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Lake in Yunnan Province, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K/28
Scope and Contents

52 x 50 mm.

Dates: 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Lake in Yunnan Province, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K/30
Scope and Contents

52 x 50 mm.

Dates: 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Landing stage, Shanghai, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/27
Scope and Contents

267 x 213 mm. View from the landing stage on the Shanghai Bund looking towards the Nanking Road, with the Central Hotel on the left and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China on the right.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Landing steps, Shanghai, with jinrickshas, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/35
Scope and Contents

268 x 211 mm. View looking down onto the landing stage at Shanghai, with lines of rickshaws in the foreground and boats moored on the River Whangpoo beyond.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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'Launch' by river bank on way to Fatshan [i.e. Foshan], Sep. 3.97, 1897-09-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/97
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...
Dates: 1897-09-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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'Launch' by river bank on way to Fatshan [i.e. Foshan], Sep. 3.97, 1897-09-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/98
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...
Dates: 1897-09-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Leaving Gô-Pó at daybreak, Feb. 4.95, dull, no [illegible] stop, counted 60, 1895-02-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/49
Scope and Contents

A blurred image of two boats.

Dates: 1895-02-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Letter of Instructions to the Ambassadors to the Country of Yoong-gyee, 1823 - 1824

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/3/1
Scope and Contents

Pencil note on cover reads ‘Document of the Burmese Envoys to Cochin China in 1823-1824.' 30p.

Dates: 1823 - 1824
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Letter sent to the Governor, Nobles, and Ministers of Yoong-gyee [? from the King of Burma], 1825 - 1841

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/3/3
Scope and Contents

English translation.14 pages.

Dates: 1825 - 1841
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
 File

Letters from MAR to his mother, from China , 1905-09 - 1908-02

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RBTN 2/4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Originals and transcripts of letters between MAR and his mother, and later between him and his wife, Gladys.

Dates: 1905-09 - 1908-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Letters of Captain Maurice A. Cameron, 1889-02-07 - 1892-02-11

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/37
Scope and Contents

These letters are largely a record of Cameron's domestic arrangements and social life, with some mention of his work inspecting or supervising the construction of roads, bridges, buildings, lighthouses, and the harbour and defences of Singapore. They also briefly describe his appointment as president of a commission set up in 1890-91 to advise upon the supply of labour. The letters from 1891 narrate a visit to China and Japan (circa 250 sheets).

Dates: 1889-02-07 - 1892-02-11
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8229C.
 Fonds

Letters of Hugh Drummond Pearson

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 356
Scope and Contents Following Hugh Pearson’s death, the principal recipients of his letters, his mother Mrs Jean Pearson and his youngest sister Ursula Pearson, prepared them for publication along with extracts from his diaries. Copies were sent to London literary agents in 1928 and again in 1930, but plans to publish the memoirs as a book with the title ‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’ were never realised. It appears that this manuscript is a copy of the projected book, which was to be divided into three...
Dates: 1894 - 1922
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).
 Fonds

Log of the 'Houghton'

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 4
Scope and Contents

'The log book of Capt. John Edwards, R.N. Given to Robert Stafford Edwards by his Aunt Miss Jane Edwards 1880. Solihull. Warwickshire.'

Dates: 1786 - 1788
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).
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Looking left along the Shameen: showing some Canton River steamers, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4488
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [No print]. Missing.

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Looking towards Kowloon Ferry Pier from the Victoria Recreation Club, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4455
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [No print]. Missing.

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Looking up Pottinger Street, Hong Kong : rainy morning, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4507
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [Showing sloping street in steps with a few people walking past tall buildings on either side].

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Lú Tiên, A-Ták, Tâu Pâu, Pîng Haù Liéb, Iw Tàu, Lûn Chheng, June 10.92, 6.30pm, bright [illegible], counted 5, 1892-06-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/35
Scope and Contents

Group portrait.

Dates: 1892-06-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).