Description:
The photo slides of Josephine Riss Fang, primarily from her trips to China (1973-1988) containing images of academic, school, public, medical, and national libraries, book stores, manuscripts and artifacts, museums, universities and educational institutions, schools and nurseries, hospitals, communes, and factories, from cities and regions including Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an, Changchun, Kunming, Harbin, Lijiang, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Daqing.
Also includes personal images from trips to China, Honduras, Japan, and Korea, pertaining to the Fang family members, cruises, sightseeing, and hot sprins. Slides of the trips includes images of the Summer Palace, Tiananmen Square, Yunnan Stone Forest, Kunming Zoo (pandas), Great Hall of the People, Fragrant Hills, Ming Tombs, Temple of Heaven, Mao's Residences, the Great Wall, and the Palace Museum. Other slides include International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) meetings in Copenhagen, Manila, Munich, and Vienna.
Several folder titles use older romanization styles for Chinese cities and places to reflect and match the original slides and descriptions written by Josephine Fang from the 1970s-1980s.
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