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  • Behind the Scenes with the Library of Congress Chinese Manuscript Collection

    Here is another interesting accidental find, this time from papers at the Library of Congress. In 1917, Professor S.C. Kiang, an academic at the University of California in Berkeley, traveled to China to procure for the Library of Congress valuable Chinese manuscripts relating to geography, and on his return, reported on his doings in China…

  • Bedouin intelligence agent in Sinai, World War I

    Just a few days ago, I found this image of an armed bedouin intelligence agent in Sinai during the World War I era. When I saw it in Yigal Sheffy’s book British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, 1914-1918, it piqued my curiosity, because you don’t commonly see images of the bedouin spies British and…