Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 23
Tsui Yen Hu

The ritual drum at Handgate Temple.

subject: Buddhism

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 15
Tsui Yen Hu

HH no 17 (Tsui’s questionnaire). An Uriyanghai herder, who offered us a lot of help. Handgate

subject: Handgate centre

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 35
Tsui Yen Hu

A young Kazakh woman at Five-Finger Spring

subject: natural sacred sites

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 46
Tsui Yen Hu

Early spring at Handgate, Altai Mountains

subject: pastoralism

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 39
Tsui Yen Hu

Late spring at Handgate, Altai Mountains and woods

subject: pastoralism

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 33
Tsui Yen Hu

Dr. Tsui meditating at five-Finger Spring, Handgate. This is an elevated rock, with five rocks spreading out below it. It is said to be very holy.

subject: medicine

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 40
Tsui Yen Hu

A freshwater spring at the spring pastures, with herders using the water.

subject: pastoralism

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 02
Tsui Yen Hu

A scene at the Handgate centre

subject: Handgate centre

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 41
Tsui Yen Hu

New born lambs and hay, at the spring pasture

subject: pastoralism

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 20
Tsui Yen Hu

Showing Buddhist scriptures inside the temple. Photo of Mt. Kailash in background.

subject: Buddhism

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 31
Tsui Yen Hu

Dr. Marsel showing his ‘secret book’ about Uriyanghai Mongolian mecilicine

subject: medicine

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 12
Tsui Yen Hu

A scene at the centre of Handgate

subject: Handgate centre

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 26
Tsui Yen Hu

Doctors and nurses of Handgate hospital

subject: medicine

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 27
Tsui Yen Hu

Seeing a doctor, Handgate hospital, Altai

subject: medicine

Expeditions of Sven Hedin
Unknown

Map depicting the routes of Sven Hedin’s exploring expeditions, 1886-1935.

subject: expeditions, maps

Map of NK Roerich’s Central Asian expeditions
Roerich Museum

Map showing the expedition routes of NK Roerich, from the Roerich Museum.

subject: expeditions, maps

Map of Evariste Huc’s travels
Dufour, H

Map accompanying “Souvenirs d’un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine”, Evariste Huc, 1850

subject: expeditions, maps

Central Asia from Peking to Yarkand and Kashmir via the Mustagh Pass: Illustrating the journeys of Captain F. E. Younghusband, Kings Dragoon Guards
Murray, John

A map showing the route of Frank E Younghusband on his trip from Beijing to Kashmir.

subject: expeditions, maps

Tracking degradation from space
Sneath, David

Satellite image (Landsat, October 1989) of the border between the Russian district of Chita and northeastern Mongolia.

subject: GIS, Inner Asia, rangeland ecology

Map of Inner Asia
MIASU

Map showing the region taken as “Inner Asia”, prepared by the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

subject: Inner Asia, maps