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English: Street circus performers in China ca. 1655. Note the fairly large performing mice, and remarkably large performing rats.
Date Drawn ca. 1655; Originally published 1666
Source Page 263 in Die Gesantschaft der Ost-Indischen Geselschaft in der Vereinigten Niederländern an der tartarischen Cham und nunmehr auch sinischen Keiser", Amsterdam, 1666. Reprinted many times elsewhere; this scan is from: Lach, Donald F.; Van Kley, Edwin J. (1994), Asia in the Making of Europe, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0226467344 . Volume III, "A Century of Advance", Book Four, "East Asia", plate 364
Author en:Johan Nieuhof (or possibly another member of the Dutch embassy to China)

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