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NRI2/10/1/1/3/1/16

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Title

Truck in Gansu taken on Joseph Needham's 1943 visit to Dunhuang.

Date

1943

Language / script

not applicable

Description

Scope and content : The broken-down truck of the SBSCO (Sino-British Science Co-operation Office, Zhongying kexue hezuo guan) in the Gobi Desert, with Rewi Alley (front right), the driver Kuang Wei (front left) and Wu Tso-Rjen [Wu Zuoren] (on top), on the road between Laojunmiao oilfield and Yumen, Gansu.

Sponsors

Digitisation of the Needham archives has been enabled thanks to the generous support of the Dunhuang Foundation US.

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