The Chinese Pavilion was in the form of a Buddhist temple with staff in Chinese traditional dress. This Pavilion suffered some disruption in August 1900, when anti-western rebels in Beijing seized the European delegations in Beijing in the Boxer Rebellion and held them for several weeks until a British-led expeditionary force arrived and recaptured the city. During the rebellion, A Chinese procession was attacked by angry Parisians. The Japanese pavilion was a red pagoda, which oddly, was placed in the section for colonial pavilions. Both the Chinese and Japanese pavilion were purchased after the Exposition by Leopold II of Belgium and transferred to Brussels, where they can be seen today.