So there's a good chance at least some of the ladies looking at these photos already had a queue or two in their home! Today, thousands of Chinese barbers all over the country are doing a rushing business, and vast quantities of Chinese hair are being exported to be made into the rats and switches for European and American ladies. To the ladies who received these cards, the photos must have looked very strange and exotic. I'll put up pictures of the whole booklet another time, but it includes a standard greeting, space to write more if you want, and four photos including these. The Yorkshire-men were stationed here between 19, so this was the last year's Christmas card they send from Hong Kong. I wonder if local hair stylists still celebrate that day?īack to the Christmas card. Once again, the man-on-the-street didn't have any say in the matter - in December that year:Ī revolutionary edict abolishes pigtails and orders calendar reform - ~very widespread forced hair-queue cuttings by revolutionary troops: the traditional Chinese pigtail begins to disappear. With the final overthrow of the Qing dynasty (ie the Manchus) in 1911, the queue's days were numbered. One easy way to do this was to kill any man who didn't wear his hair in the approved Manchu style! When the Manchus conquered China, they forced the resident Han Chinese to adopt the same hairstyle.Īs new rulers, stamping out any remaining resistance to their rule was top of their to-do list. It was originally a Manchu hairstyle: shaved forehead, the rest of the hair uncut and braided into a pigtail. Its disappearance was big news at the time. For more than 200 years, all Chinese men had been forced to wear their hair in this style. The subject of the photos is the disappearance of the Chinese "Queue", the long pigtail you can see on the gentleman on the left. Why would a British infantryman be sending photos of Chinese gentlemen to his family and friends? The teen boy fantasy rhetoric on display in the filmmaker's Playboy interview make it more difficult than ever to get swept away by the story of "Avatar." He technically answers some lingering questions about Na'vi reproduction, but in a way that's much more frustrating than satisfying.These photos (and their titles!) have an unlikely source - they come from The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry's Christmas cards, 1912. Over a decade after the film's release, its initial magic has worn off for many, giving way to harsher criticisms of its handling of sensitive themes and even its then-cutting-edge visual effects. Cameron mentions a shot featuring Neytiri's nipples that had to be cut to keep the PG-13 rating, and elsewhere in the interview, he describes his goal of inspiring "actual lust for a character that consists of pixels of ones and zeros."Īs disheartening as they are, Cameron's words here pretty much speak for themselves. He goes on to explain that he designed the loincloths based on the garb of a real Indigenous people, but then follows that apparent commitment to realism up with an in-depth description of the characters' breast design. "Right from the beginning I said, 'She's got to have t***s,' even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals."
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