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China (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

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The practice of kissing, 1922 - 1924

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/6
Scope and Contents This file contains notes for a projected magazine article on the comparative history of kissing from ancient to modern times. Bell sent out questionnaires soliciting information on the subject, and the file contains answers from the Gold Coast Acting Secretary of Native Affairs; the Japanese Counsellor of the British Embassy; the British Legation, Nepal; the British Consulate, Iceland; the British Consulate, Seoul; a missionary to China; the British Legation, Abyssinia; the Governor,...
Dates: 1922 - 1924
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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The Race Course, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/7
Scope and Contents

264 x 105 mm. View looking north across the Happy Valley (or Wognei Chong Valley) which contains Hong Kong’s race course. Beyond the track on the left is Morrison Hill, with the Harbour 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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The railway at Kung-how, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4526
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Tunnel 2200 yds long almost complete : view taken about 3 1/2 miles from Lok-lo-ha: railway will run from Kowloon to Canton.

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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The reservoir and dam in the New Territory, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4525
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [Surrounded by rolling hills].

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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The Saddleback from Yan Chan Island, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4538
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). This island is united by a causeway with the mainland. [Saddleback in very misty background with boats on the water and on the foreground shore].

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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(the same) [Hong Kong street], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4424
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate.

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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The Sports Ground, Shameen, Canton, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4468
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Showing uniformed men standing around outside tall buildings on the right].

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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The Standard Oil works from the road above Kowloon, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4540
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). On way towards Lok-lo-ha road.

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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The Straits Team, Interport Cricket, Hong Kong, November 1897, 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/79
Scope and Contents 275 x 212 mm (mounted on card). A team photograph, mounted on card with identifications and scores in letterpress. Figures in the photograph are: J.A. Healing (Negri Sembilan); C. Glassford (Selangor); G.P. Stevens (Singapore); J.G. MacTaggart (Singapore); Frederic William Talbot (Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan) b. 1865, State Auditor of Negri Sembilan; Lieut. A.J. Woodroffe, R.E. (Singapore); Mr Justice Andrew John Leach (Singapore) b. 1851, Puisne Judge, Straits Settlements; Captain...
Dates: 1897
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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The Straits Team, Interport Cricket, Hong Kong, November, 1897, 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/80
Scope and Contents

277 x 215 mm (mounted on card)

Dates: 1897
Conditions Governing Access: Not available for use.
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The Supreme Court, Hong Kong, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/172
Scope and Contents

A copy of the half-tone photograph showing the west façade of the Law Courts from Chater Road.

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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The Telegraph Station, Sharp Peak, near Foochow (A.S.H. on right hand of door)., 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/40
Scope and Contents

278 x 223 mm. View from a nearby hill looking down onto the Telegraph Station, with small terraced fields on the hillside in the foreground and the Pacific Ocean in the distance.

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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The Telegraph Station, Sharp Peak, near Foochow (A.S.H. on top of balustrade)., 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/39
Scope and Contents

275 x 216 mm. General view of the single storey Telegraph Station buildings at Sharp Peak near Foochow. The figures on the terrace of the building are too distant to be seen clearly, but A.S.H. is presumably the compiler of this album.

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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The Temple of the Five Hundred Genii, Canton, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/11
Scope and Contents

271 x 204 mm. View looking along the body of the temples, with a row of bronze images on either side.

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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The top of the Wall, Peking, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302E/12
Scope and Contents

View looking along the top of the city wall.

Dates: 1890
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).
 Sub-Fonds

The trade routes of South China, 1898

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 63/23
Scope and Contents

'The trade routes of South China and their relation to the development of Hongkong', a paper read to the Royal Colonial Institute, 24 May 1898.

Dates: 1898
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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The village of Nan-chu-tao, Weihaiwei, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4063
Scope and Contents

There are 300 villages in the British territory. [Road with back views of laden people and mule].

Dates: 1908-11
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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The village of Nan-chu-tao, Weihaiwei, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4064
Scope and Contents

There are 300 villages in the British territory. [Mule working a millstone with woma looking on].

Dates: 1908-11
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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The village of Nan-chu-tao, Weihaiwei, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4065
Scope and Contents

There are 300 villages in the British territory. [Mule working a millstone with woma looking on].

Dates: 1908-11
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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The village of Nan-chu-tao, Weihaiwei, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4066
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. There are 300 villages in the British territory. [Stonwe houses of the village with hills in distance].

Dates: 1908-11
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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The washing place at Feng Lin village, Wei hai wei., 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4090
Scope and Contents

[No print]. Missing.

Dates: 1908-11
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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The washing place at Feng Lin village, Wei hai wei, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4091
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing back of a person walking along path beside river].

Dates: 1908-11
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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The well at Tai-wo-shi, New Territory, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4530
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing area around well cemented and people around with buckets].

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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Three happy youngsters with the boat people in ‘Aberdeen’ on the south coast of Hong Kong Island, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038E/13
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A series of thirty-two photographs taken by Douglas Moore in 1949, depicting views and aspects of the lives and conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. The photographs were printed and mounted for an exhibition at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the 1980s. The average size of each print (inner mount measurement) is 290 mm x 360 mm. The photographs are each individually captioned on the reverse and are accompanied by Mr Moore’s introductory caption for the exhibition:Hong...
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).
 Fonds

Three months in Thibet [Tibet]

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 102
Scope and Contents

A diary of Lovett's time on leave in Tibet, 83 pages.

Dates: 1888
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).