Dragon dance
Dragon dance
Chinese men entertaining troops, France, during World War I. Superficially this photograph appears to be of a peaceful scene with Chinese men putting on a performance for an audience of nurses and soldiers. The Chinese are probably members of the Chinese Labour Corps, civilians contracted in China and used on the Western Front for duties such as building roads and burying the dead. The reality …
Subject
- Chinese Labor Corps
- Costumes (character dress)
- Dragons
- Entertainers
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Subject
- Chinese Labor Corps
- Costumes (character dress)
- Dragons
- Entertainers
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Rights
- Available under Creative Commons license; Attribution, Non-commercial, ShareAlike
Issue date
- 2005
- 1916 - 1918
- 1916/1918
- 2005
Identifier
- 74548886
Extent
- 1 online resource
Is part of
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219
Year
- 2005
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-06T13:22:52.553Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:45:55.778Z
Keywords (provided by the community)
- France
- People's Republic of China
- United States
- World War I