PFH1186846: China: Shadow puppet of an old man in a boat, Shanxi or Gansu Province, 20th century / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186848: China: Female shadow puppet with bound feet wearing a donkey costume and carrying a string of cash (coins), Gansu or Shanxi Province, 20th century / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186865: Malaysia: The Undangs (chiefs) of Sungei Ujong, a district in Negeri Sembilan State, c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186869: Indonesia: Figure of Bagong, wayang kulit ('shadow puppet') character, one of the Punokawan or clown-servants of the heroes / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187819: Thailand: Yingluck Shinawatra (born 1967), Prime Minister of Thailand (2011-) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187821: Vietnam: Nguyen Phu Trong (born 14 April 1944) General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (2011- ) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187845: Japan: Honda Masahige (1545-1617), samurai, militarist and retainer to Tokugawa Iyeasu (1543-1616) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187851: Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) playing billiards with Dr Nhữ Thế Bảo, a military doctor with the Viet Minh, c. 1950s / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187862: Burma / Myanmar: An African-American US Army soldier and a Chinese soldier placing the flag of their respective allies on the front of a jeep that was about to drive onto the Ledo Road/Stilwell Road, 6 Feb 1945 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187887: China: The bodies of three dead Kuomintang (KMT) soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek's anti-communist forces displayed in simple coffins at the time of the 'White Terror'. Shanghai, April 1927 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187890: Ho Chi Minh (right) with Vo Nguyen Giap (left) in Hanoi, 1945 (photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187891: Vietnam: General Vo Nguyen Giap (back left) with President Ho Chi Minh (second from right) and other advisers during the First Indochina War (1946-1954). North Vietnam, 1950 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187952: Iran / Persia: 'A Nestorian of the Mountains'. Justin Perkins, 1843 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187959: Germany: Cydonie oblonga - Quince - from Kohler's Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187963: Germany: Capsicum annuum - Paprika - from Kohler's Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187967: Germany: Juglans regia - Persian or English Walnut - from Kohler's Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1187999: Indonesia: A Javanese family of Jakarta (Batavia), c. 1870 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188015: Iran / Persia: 'A Persian Lady at Home'. Justin Perkins, 1843 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188016: Iran / Persia: 'A Persian Dervish'. Justin Perkins, 1843 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188063: India / Manipur: A Manipuri female, 1860s / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188065: India / Burma / Manipur: A 'Cassay' horseman from Manipur in the service of the Burmese Army, 1799 engraving / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188094: India / Manipur: The Maharajah of Manipur and the Tongal General. Both men condemned to death, but only the Tongal General was hanged on 13 August, 1891 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188097: India / Manipur: Major General Sir James Johnstone (1841-1895), British Political Agent in Manipur (1877-1886) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188120: Vietnam: Official portrait of General Hoang Van Thai (1915 - 1986), 1986 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188121: Vietnam: Le Van Luong (1912-1995), Member of the 1st Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1935-1951), subsequently Head of the Central Organizing Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1951-1960) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188136: Korea: Portrait of Chae Jegong (1720-1799), scholar, poet and Chief State Councillor during the reign of King Jeongjo (1776-1800) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188149: Korea: Portrait of Heungseon Daewongun, also known as Prince Gung (1820-1898). Yi Hancheol with Yu Sook, 1869 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188257: UK / India: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (centre) in Delhi with Vice Admiral J.H. Godfrey, Flag Officer Commanding, Royal Indian Navy (left) and Air Vice Marshal M. Thomas, Air Officer Commanding, India Command, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188603: India: An engraving of the necropolis or royal tombs of the Rajahs of Jhansi, 1872 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188611: China: 'Pecheli sive Peking Imperii Sinarum Provincia Prima' (Pecheli or Peking, first province of the Chinese Empire). Atlas Blaeu, Laurens Van der Hem, c. 1665 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188703: China: Two illustrations by Friedrich Schiff from the 'Old Shanghai' of the 1930s, Schiff, Friedrich (1908-1968) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188727: Japan: 'Tosei Sangokushi no Uchi'. Kabuki actor, Sawamura Tanosuke, with phoenix and angel tattoo. Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189748: China / Germany / Japan: 'The Japanese General Yamad's Army occupied Chiuo Forts at Tsingtao'. Anglo-Japanese capture of the German-occupied Port of Tsingtao (Qingdao) in 1914 during World War I. Tokyo: Shobido & Co., 1915 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189750: China / Germany / Japan: 'General Waldeck and General Kamio at Tsingtao; Cameos of German, British and Japanese Emperors'. Anglo-Japanese capture of the German-occupied Port of Tsingtao (Qingdao) in 1914 during World War I. Tokyo: Shobido & Co., 1915 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189805: Thailand: Prayuth Chan-ocha (born 1954), Prime Minister of Thailand (2014 -) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189873: Japan: A young woman in a blue kimono holding a sake bottle. Nippon Shuzo Kabushiki Kaisha, c. 1916 / Bridgeman Images