Chinese Ladies at Home (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Nanking Road is the fashionable drive, and in the late afternoon it is thronged with people, both Chinese and foreign, showing-oh themselves and their carriages. Carriage attendants are called, Mafoo, and no matter how many there may be the coachman is. No. I. Mafoo; these creatures are the most ludicrous to be seen in Shanghai. Picture, and keep from smiling if you can, a lady dressed in the latest Parisian fashion driving in a stylish dog cart with her Mafoo (footman) standing behind, dressed in a dirty white night shirt looking garment upon which lies his long black queue like a spinal column, and on his head a light brown Fedora.' This is not an exaggeration. I saw it. The Mafoo are miserable looking beings in a laughable uniform, but in a fine one they look worse, for then the dirt and general unattractiveness of the wearer is accentuated. The really correct dress for a Mafoo could not be told, for fancy seemed to run riot.

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