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Photographs
| Title |
Tseng |
| Reference |
NRI2/10/1/1/8/8 |
| Creator |
Zeng Sheng ?? |
| Covering Dates |
1 Mar. 1943–1 Feb. 1945 |
| Extent and Medium |
4 prints; photograph |
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| Content and context |
4 photographs with accompanying text given to Joseph Needham by Tseng Sheng (Zeng Sheng ??, 1899-1968), an entomologist at Szechuan University (Si chuan da xue ????), while Dr. Needham was Director of the SBSCO / Sino-British Science Co-operation Office (Zhong ying ke xue he zuo guan ???????) in Chungking (Chongqing) ???, China from 1943-1946. They depict Professor Tseng taking part in an educational campaign to promote improvements in tobacco growing to farmers near Chengtu (Chengdu) ???, Szechuan (Sichuan) province ??? under the auspices of the Agricultural Promotion and Improvement Committee of the Executive Yuan, National Szechwan University and Nanking University (Nan jing da xue ????). They are undated, though one appears in Needham's book Chinese Science, published in 1945. |
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Tseng Sheng , an entomologist at Szechuan University , lecturing to farmers on tobacco cultivation and pest control in Singtu-hsien , Szechuan. Original caption by Joseph Needham: Photo 1. Showing Dr. Tseng Sheng with his collaborators on a theatre before the peasants of Singtu-hsien, Szechwan Province, taught them how to cultivate Virginia tobacco and to control insect-pests, under the auspices of the Agricultural Promotion and Improvement Committee of the Executive Yuen and the National Szechwan University.. Location: Xindu xian ???, Chengdu ???, Sichuan ???. Full title: Tseng Sheng (Zeng Sheng ??), an entomologist at Szechuan University (Si chuan da xue ????), lecturing to farmers on tobacco cultivation and pest control in Singtu-hsien (Xin du xian) ???, Szechuan (Sichuan) ??.
Creator: Zeng Sheng ??.
1 print; Photograph. |
1 Mar. 1943–1 Feb. 1945 |
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Tseng Sheng , an entomologist at Szechuan University , teaching pupils from a rural school how to recognise and spray insects in a tobacco field near Chengtu , Szechuan. Original caption by Joseph Needham: Photo II. Dr. Tseng Sheng with his collaborators conducted the pupils of a rural school to the tobacco field, teaching them to recognize the insects and spraying against them.. Location: Chengdu ???, Sichuan ???. Full title: Tseng Sheng (Zeng Sheng ??), an entomologist at Szechuan University (Si chuan da xue ????), teaching pupils from a rural school how to recognise and spray insects in a tobacco field near Chengtu (Chengdu) ??, Szechuan (Sichuan) ??.
Creator: Zeng Sheng ??.
1 print; Photograph. |
1 Mar. 1943–1 Feb. 1945 |
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Tseng Sheng , an entomologist at Szechuan University , lecturing to farmers on tobacco cultivation and pest control in Pie-hsien , Szechuan. Original caption by Joseph Needham: Photo III. In a village of Pie-hsien of Szechwan Province, one of the important tobacco-grown areas, in front of the theatre, a great number of peasants during market-day came to attend the meeting and to listen Dr. Tseng lecture. There was a flag on which the Chinese characters were written notifying that it is a Tobacco Improvement meeting under the auspices of the Agr. Promotion and Improvement Committee of the Executive Yuan, the National Szechwan University and the Nanking University. Beside the flag a spraying apparatus was placed. It is the purpose of the mission to introduce to the peasants the modern and simple scientific agricultural methods, especially insect controls.. Location: Pi xian ??, Sichuan ???. Full title: Tseng Sheng (Zeng Sheng ??), an entomologist at Szechuan University (Si chuan da xue ????), lecturing to farmers on tobacco cultivation and pest control in Pie-hsien (Pi xian ???), Szechuan (Sichuan) ??.
Creator: Zeng Sheng ??.
1 print; Photograph. |
1 Mar. 1943–1 Feb. 1945 |
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Tseng Sheng , an entomologist at Szechuan University , lecturing to teachers and pupils on modern scientific agricultural methods at a rural school in , Szechuan. Original caption by Joseph Needham: Photo IV. Dr. Tseng spoke before the teachers and pupils of a rural school of ?? hsien, Szechwan Province, after the Tobacco Improvement Meeting had taken place in that village. He spoke on the needs of modern scientific agricultural methods in China and emphasized wrongness done in agricultural education in China Location: Pi xian ??, Sichuan ???. Full title: Tseng Sheng (Zeng Sheng ??), an entomologist at Szechuan University (Si chuan da xue ????), lecturing to teachers and pupils on modern scientific agricultural methods at a rural school in (Chong ning xian) ??? (now in Pi xian ??), Szechuan (Sichuan) ??.
Creator: Zeng Sheng ??.
1 print; Photograph. |
1 Mar. 1943–1 Feb. 1945 |
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