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Chinese wajang performance in Batavia

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Chinese wajang performance in Batavia

Brandes, Jan

Chinese wajang performance in Batavia.

Top is a black-and-white drawing of a covered platform and spectators in the street; beneath that a drawing in colour of a platform.

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Sources and literature

Bruijn, M. de en R. Raben, The world of Jan Brandes, 1743-1808: Drawings of a Dutch traveller in Batavia, Ceylon and Southern Africa (2004)