Showing 6106 results

J.W. Freeland was a researcher interested in Chinese history.

John Scarth was a British Resident in China and author of 'Twelve Years in China. The People, the Rebels, and the Mandarins'.

Henry Faulds was a Scottish doctor, missionary and scientist who is noted for the development of fingerprinting. He was a missionary in Japan developing a hospital and a teaching facility for Japanese medical students.

Gertrude Alison Anderson edited 'The letters of Thomas Manning to Charles Lamb', published in 1926.

HAROLD M. OTNESS was Professor of Library Science, Collection Development Librarian, at Southern Oregon State College. Harold joined the SOU faculty in 1966 and retired in 1999. In December 2014 he donated over 600 foreign-language historical documents and books on Taiwan to the National Museum of Taiwan History.

First established in Lyon and then transferred to Paris in the building Émile Guimet had raised on the hill of Chaillot, the historic building on the Place d’Iéna arose from his vast project to create a museum of religions in the wake of his pivotal travels in Egypt.

Fascinated by the East and its civilisations, he assembled there his outstanding collections, notably the ones he brought back from his travels in Japan, China, and India in 1876-1877.