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A collection of almost 600 pamphlets, mainly in the English language, relating to the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

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Documents relating to the career and life in China during the period 1930-1945 of Mary Prowse Gell, hospital doctor and lecturer in medicine. The collection consists of a small number of documents relating to Dr Gell's career in China, during which she experienced the Japanese invasion of that country and was subsequently interned there by the Japanese during World War II. The documents consist largely of contemporary letters and her own eyewitness accounts.

Scope and Contents A collection of approximately 1,200 slides taken by Professor James Huntley Grayson during his time spent in East Asia. The collection consists of around 1,100 colour and black and white slides taken during visits to Republic of Korea (South Korea), Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong between 1965 and 1973; and a further set of 70 slides recording a visit to Shenyang, China, in August 1985.For further details of this collection, and links to digitised images, please see the...

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The collection consists of two parts: photocopied correspondence from James Huntley Grayson to his parents in America from Taiwan, Japan and Korea between 1965 and 1987; and field notes, research material, etc. compiled by James Huntley Grayson during research visits to Manchuria, Korea, Japan and Mongolia between 1982 and 2004.

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A collection of approximately 350 volumes on Japan and some other countries of the Far East, including China, mainly in the 20th century.

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Scope and Contents A collection of approximately 1,600 photographic images, some duplicated, assembled by Douglas Knoop on a world tour undertaken in 1913 and 1914.The collection consists of slides, photographs, negatives and postcards, in colour and black and white. The images cover natural features, human interest such as street scenes, and major events such as earthquakes, as well as incidental events on the tour (e.g. on board ship). The countries recorded include India, Ceylon,...

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Documents donated by the family of Peter and Rose Townsend, including booklets, newspaper cuttings, newsletters, reports and translated articles relating to China, including many items dating from the early 1950s concerning the Cultural Revolution.

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Notebooks, reports (published and unpublished), correspondence, photographs, manuscripts and personal documents created by the journalist and author Alan Winnington. The material is mainly focussed on his professional career as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Worker in China, Korea and Berlin between 1949 and 1980. It also contains material relating to his later activities as an author of fictional works.