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A Buddhist master (?) enthroned on an elephant, being presented with a sword-like object by a man and woman. Watercolour with gouache, China (?), 1750/1850?.

Porcelain fruit containing couple engaged in sexual foreplay

Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.

A Chinese woman being subjected to torture while tied to a cross: the woman's torturer is shown using a knife to cut open her abdomen, arms and face, while a formally-dressed man looks on. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.

Foot of a Chinese woman, showing the effect of foot-binding. Photograph by (?) E.P. Minett, 192-.

Chang, the great Fychow galop.

A Chinese man offering a small lizard on a chopstick to an English guest who is reluctant to eat it. Coloured lithograph by Smith after himself.

Two Chinese opium smokers in a booth watched by a woman who fans herself. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.

A Chinese man displaying the symptoms of a malignant pustule on his finger. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

A Chinese man displaying symptoms of anthrax of the thigh. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

A Chinese man displaying symptoms of a mammary carbuncle on his chest. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

Nourishment of life : the culture of health in traditional Chinese society / by Linda Chih-ling Koo.

Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a standing Chinese man. Watercolour, China, 17--.

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A Chinese man displaying the symptoms of a malignant pustule on his finger. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

A Chinese man displaying symptoms of anthrax of the thigh. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

A Chinese man displaying symptoms of a mammary carbuncle on his chest. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

Nourishment of life : the culture of health in traditional Chinese society / by Linda Chih-ling Koo.

Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a standing Chinese man. Watercolour, China, 17--.