Students at the Peking Jiyu Gakuen School engaging in calisthenics.

Description

Students at the Peking Jiyu Gakuen School engaging in calisthenics.

Danish gymnastic [sic]

From a collection of staged photographs produced under the title “Life at a Girls School in Peking”, and produced at the Peking Jiyu Gakuen in Japanese-occupied Beijing. The original caption reads: “Some graduate of the Jiyu Gakuen were sent to Danmark [sic] in order to study the gymnastics, and now the Chinese girls are given the new type of physical training in China [sic]”. “Danish gymnastics” was a form of mass athletic exercise popular in Europe in the inter-war period.

Date

circa 1940

Artist/Creator

Anon (possibly Horino Masao 堀野正雄)

Medium

Photograph

Theme

Return to the capital

Case Studies

Japanese-occupied China
(1937 – 1945)

Keywords

calisthenics, children, education, sports, women

Further information

Further Reading

Hans Bonde, “Gymnastics as a rite of passage: Danish gymnastics 1920-50”, Young 2.4 (1994): 17-35.

Source

The National Archives

Source Reference Details

CN 11/11

Permissions/Acknowledgements

The National Archives

COTCA Identifier

TNA-0015

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