Military cadets

HMS Clio band

Worcestershire Regiment band, Shanghai Volunteer Corps route march, 1930

Shanghai Scottish Company and pipers, Shanghai Volunteer Corps route march, 1926

Street entertainers and audience

A large drum on a stand at a temple

Children beside a large drum on a stand at a temple

Jhansi Brigade (Shanghai Defence Force) marching across Garden Bridge, Shanghai, February 1927

British troops (Shanghai Defence Force) setting off to march along Nanjing Road, Shanghai

British troops and drummers (Shanghai Defence Force) marching, Shanghai

2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment drummers (Shanghai Defence Force), Shanghai

R.F.C. Hedgeland and E.B. Howell at the Drum Tower (南京鼓楼), Nanjing (南京市)

Military band leading regimental troops, Empire Day Parade, Shanghai, 1920

Bell Tower (Zhonglou 钟楼) and Drum Tower (Gulou 鼓楼), Beijing

Buddhist nun striking a mu yu and a metal bell

Rice cake vendor holding a wooden tap box called a bang zi

Itinerant vendor striking a drum called a xiao gu

Tracery candy vendor holding a drum called a da tao

Ship's band, HMS Despatch

Amy Oxley Wilkinson with the Boys’ Blind School Band, Fuzhou