Graduation ceremony, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, ca.1943

Joint graduation of University of Nanking, West China Union University, Cheeloo University, and Ginling College. Speakers on the stage, with a backdrop of plants against a white-painted brick wall; more plants along the edge of the stage. Graduates are partly visible in front. Speakers, from left: a man in Chinese dress; a Western man in a suit; a woman in Chinese dress; a Western man in clerical vestments; a Chinese man in a suit; another man in Chinese dress. They are speaking or singing from papers held in the hands.