Title:

modern gentlewoman holds a peacock fan at the Great China Theatre /

Digital Archive of Chinese Theater in California

Description:

The actress is wearing a newly designed costume for a modern gentlewoman. Such a character had never performed in a Chinese Cantonese opera till the 1920s so this costume was especially designed for her. ---Pear garden in the West.

Creator/Contributor:

May's Photo (Firm : San Francisco, Calif.)

Date:

[between 1920 and 1929] (issued)

Contributing Institution:

Museum of Performance and Design, Performing Arts Library