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Frances Wood is a librarian, sinologue, historian and and former head of the Chinese Collection at the British Library, known for her writings on Chinese history, including Marco Polo, life in the Chinese treaty ports, and the First Emperor of China.


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The unbracketed numbers refer to the starting page of the article.
For entries in multiple issues of the quarterly, the occurrences are separated by semi-colons.

articles by, [1] 75; [6] 60; [11] 88; [20] 90; [27] 89; [43] 90; Hand-grenade Practice in Peking, [30] 13

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