PFH1178588: China: Elaborate late afternoon Buddhist rituals outside Ming-era Qianming Si (Qianming Temple), Guiyang, Guizhou Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178539: China: Quartzite sandstone pillars and peaks, Wulingyuan Scenic Area (Zhangjiajie), Hunan Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178794: Korea: Kim Jong Il, the future supreme leader of North Korea (the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, DPRK) in 1946, probably in the Russian Far East / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178590: China: Elaborate late afternoon Buddhist rituals outside Ming-era Qianming Si (Qianming Temple), Guiyang, Guizhou Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178823: China: Everyone should study science, everyone should conduct experiments. From the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178621: China: Jiaxiu Lou (First Scholar's Tower) on the Nanming River, Guiyang, Guizhou Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178628: China: Meridian Gate (Wumen), Forbidden City (Zijin Cheng), Beijing / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178631: China: Detail of the terrace in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony (Taihedian), The Forbidden City (Zijin Cheng), Beijing / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178635: China: Duanmen (Upright Gate) and square leading to the Forbidden City (Zijin Cheng), Beijing / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178665: Burma: A busy scene on the road to Taunggyi, Shan State / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178715: Vietnam: A traditional woodblock painting of Vietnamese mice paying tribute to the big cat (China), from Dong Ho village, Bac Ninh Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178727: Malaysia / Singapore: An extended Peranakan family posing in the garden of their house, early 20th century / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178750: Thailand: A 'Crystal Son' on the eve of the Poy Sang Long Festival, Wat Pa Pao (Shan temple), Chiang Mai, northern Thailand / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178778: Korea: Kim Jong-suk (December 24, 1917 – September 22, 1949) was a Korean independence activist and Communist politician. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178825: China: Study culture to realise the Four Modernisations! From the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178837: Thailand: Parasols held above the heads of the 'Crystal Sons' at Wat Phra Singh, Poy Sang Long Festival, Chiang Mai / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178893: Madagascar: Queen Ranavalona III (r. 1883-1897) photographed in exile at Algiers by J. Geiser, c. 1905 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178898: Laos: Health care, Revolutionary Socialist realist-style political poster on the streets of Vientiane / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178926: Netherlands / Holland: 'The Seated Zouave' by Vincent Willem Van Gogh (1853-1890) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178939: China: Revolutionary students and lecturers demonstrating at Beijing University, May 4th Movement, 1919, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178945: China: Remains of a chedi, Subashi Ancient City (Subashi Gucheng), Kuqa, Xinjiang Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179015: Uzbekistan: Jama Masjid, Tillya Kari Madrassa, The Registan, Samarkand / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179031: Uzbekistan: A window detail in the inner courtyard of Tillya Kari Madrassa, The Registan, Samarkand / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179059: Burma / Myanmar: Khin Myo Chit, Burmese writer (1915-1999) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179067: Laos: Revolutionary Socialist realist-style political poster on the streets of Vientiane / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178847: Thailand: 'Crystal Sons' on the eve of the Poy Sang Long Festival, Wat Pa Pao (Shan temple), Chiang Mai, northern Thailand / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178892: Laos: Revolutionary Socialist realist-style political poster on the streets of Vientiane / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178925: Senegal / France: A Senegalese Spahi, late 19th century / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178881: Thailand: Thai schoolgirls dressed in Akha traditional costume for the Loy Krathong Parade, Loy Krathong Festival, Chiang Mai / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178961: China / USA: Lieutenant General Claire Chennault, Commander of the Flying Tigers, Yunnan, China, May 1942 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178927: France /Algeria: A French North African Zouave, late 19th century / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178957: Thailand: Apsarasingha (female angel and lion), a mythological being from the Himavamsa Forest, Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha), Bangkok / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179130: Uzbekistan: Wall detail, Ulug Beg Madrassa, The Registan, Samarkand / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179159: Uzbekistan: Tombs of Timur (Tamerlane) and Ulug Beg, Gur-e Amir Mausoleum, Samarkand / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179168: China: 'Ladies of a Mandarin's Family Playing Cards', by Thomas Allom, c. 1845 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179190: Uzbekistan: Calligraphic detail above a doorway in Shah-i-Zinda, Samarkand / Bridgeman Images