Description:
The slides of Josephine Riss Fang (1922-2023), primarily from her trips to China (1973-1988) during and after the Cultural Revolution and consisting of images of academic, school, public, medical, and national libraries, book stores, manuscripts and artifacts, museums, universities and educational institutions, schools and nurseries, performances, 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 slides from personal trips to China, Honduras, Japan, and Korea, pertaining to the Fang family members, cruises, sightseeing, and hot springs. 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 in the 1970s-1980s.
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