Tseng - Educational campaign to promote improvements in tobacco growing, Sichuan

曾省 - 四川, 促進煙草生産提高的教育活動

4 photographs with accompanying text given to Joseph Needham by Zeng Sheng 曾省 (1899-1968), an entomologist at National Szechuan University, while Dr. Needham was Director of the Sino-British Science Co-operation Office in Chongqing, China from 1943-1946. They depict Professor Zeng taking part in an educational campaign to promote improvements in tobacco growing for farmers near Chengdu 成都, Sichuan province under the auspices of the Agricultural Promotion and Improvement Committee of the Executive Yuan, National Szechwan University and Nanking University. They are undated, though one appears in Needham's book Chinese Science, published in 1945.

4张照片和说明文字是由曾省(1899-1968)送给李约瑟博士的，曾省是国立四川大学的昆虫学家。那时李约瑟博士是中国重庆中英科学合作馆的主任（1943-1946）。这些照片描述了曾省教授参加四川省成都市为农民举办的促进烟草生产提高的教育活动，该活动由行政院农业推广与改善委员会，国立四川大学和南京大学共同支持。这些照片的拍摄时间没有标明，不过其中有一幅照片曾出现在李约瑟博士1945年出版的《中国科学》一书中。


Title: Tseng Sheng (Zeng Sheng 曾省), an entomologist at National Szechuan University (Guo li si chuan da xue 國立四川大學), lecturing to farmers on tobacco cultivation and pest control in Singtu-hsien (Xin du xian) 新都縣, Szechuan (Sichuan) 四川.
Location: Xindu xian 新都县, Chengdu 成都市, Sichuan 四川省.
Date: 1 Mar. 1943 - 1 Feb. 1945
Original caption: Photo 1. Showing Dr. Tseng Sheng with his collaborators on a theatre before the peasants of Singtu-hsien, Szechwan Province, taught them how to cultivate Virginia tobacco and to control insect-pests, under the auspices of the Agricultural Promotion and Improvement Committee of the Executive Yuen and the National Szechwan University..
Photographer: Zeng Sheng 曾省
Classmark: Tseng/1

Title: Tseng Sheng (Zeng Sheng 曾省), an entomologist at National Szechuan University (Guo li si chuan da xue 國立四川大學), teaching pupils from a rural school how to recognise and spray insects in a tobacco field near Chengtu (Chengdu) 成都, Szechuan (Sichuan) 四川.
Location: Chengdu 成都市, Sichuan 四川省.
Date: 1 Mar. 1943 - 1 Feb. 1945
Original caption: Photo II. Dr. Tseng Sheng with his collaborators conducted the pupils of a rural school to the tobacco field, teaching them to recognize the insects and spraying against them..
Photographer: Zeng Sheng 曾省
Classmark: Tseng/2

Title: Tseng Sheng (Zeng Sheng 曾省), an entomologist at National Szechuan University (Guo li si chuan da xue 國立四川大學), lecturing to farmers on tobacco cultivation and pest control in Pie-hsien (Pi xian 郫縣?), Szechuan (Sichuan) 四川.
Location: Pi xian 郫县, Sichuan 四川省.
Date: 1 Mar. 1943 - 1 Feb. 1945
Original caption: Photo III. In a village of Pie-hsien of Szechwan Province, one of the important tobacco-grown areas, in front of the theatre, a great number of peasants during market-day came to attend the meeting and to listen Dr. Tseng lecture. There was a flag on which the Chinese characters were written notifying that it is a Tobacco Improvement meeting under the auspices of the Agr. Promotion and Improvement Committee of the Executive Yuan, the National Szechwan University and the Nanking University. Beside the flag a spraying apparatus was placed. It is the purpose of the mission to introduce to the peasants the modern and simple scientific agricultural methods, especially insect controls..
Photographer: Zeng Sheng 曾省
Classmark: Tseng/3

Title: Tseng Sheng (Zeng Sheng 曾省), an entomologist at National Szechuan University (Guo li si chuan da xue 國立四川大學), lecturing to teachers and pupils on modern scientific agricultural methods at a rural school in (Chong ning xian) 崇寧縣 (now in Pi xian 郫縣), Szechuan (Sichuan) 四川.
Location: Pi xian 郫县, Sichuan 四川省.
Date: 1 Mar. 1943 - 1 Feb. 1945
Original caption: Photo IV. Dr. Tseng spoke before the teachers and pupils of a rural school of 崇寧 hsien, Szechwan Province, after the Tobacco Improvement Meeting had taken place in that village. He spoke on the needs of modern scientific agricultural methods in China and emphasized wrongness done in agricultural education in China
Photographer: Zeng Sheng 曾省
Classmark: Tseng/4