Peking opera cast for 'The Commander Who Wanted to Execute His Own Son'

Peking opera cast for 'The Commander Who Wanted to Execute His Own Son'

Collection

Ruxton Family

Identifier

Ru02-61

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ru02-61. Photo from an album (UoB reference Ru02). No caption for this photograph in the album. See page 116 'Old Peking - The City and its People', Hai Feng Publishing Co., 1993, where this image is captioned 'Peking Opera: The Commander Who Wanted to Execute His Own Son - This is a photo of a Peking Opera performance in the early years of the Republic'. See Ru02-62 (for another photograph, taken at the same photographic studio). See also AB01-25 (a portrait of the boy on the right).

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1900

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London

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