ABSTRACT
On the evening of Monday, 4 August 1902, all was quiet in Tivoli’s Chinese village. Since the Chinese troupe had arrived in early June 1902, the village had otherwise constantly bustled with people coming to see the Chinese performances and ethnographic curiosities. In the first three weeks alone, more than 35,000 guests visited the special Tivoli attraction. 2 But, on this August evening, the scheduled performances were cancelled and guests missed out on seeing the fakir, Djih-Djyh-Siuom, the female singer Ajoh, the Chinese man with dwarfism who went by the European-sounding name of Julius, and all of the other spectacular personalities in the Chinese village – the Chinese had gone on strike.
