Two pieces of food for thought:

  • https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3198984/china-chic-trend-builds-young-peoples-patriotism-cultural-confidence (Chinese people starting to dress in the Han fashion again)

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20210210074724/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/world/asia/new-zealand-rawiri-waititi-tie.html (Māori politician kicked out of parliament for not wearing a necktie, turns into a whole dispute, eventually wins)

Now if you look at Chinese parliament, well I don't have to tell you what you'll see.

What would it take for Chinese politicians to start appearing in Han dress?

(not advocating for this, just a stray thought I had)

  • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The Chinese call American/western style 土, roughly pronounced tŭ I haven't been keeping up enough with c/Lang to know the full context. But it roughly means dirt. So it'd mean some like "dust level drip"

    • Gimbrone [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      "Tu" means earth. Western dress is 西装, "western costume". It used to be quite fashionable in the post-Qing era. It showed you weren't a slave to tradition like so many others, and were forward-looking and progressive.

      • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        My ability to follow chinese memes is a little slow bit it had been the insult to describe western fashion for a while. If they changed it I hadn't seen anything on doyen