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Early 20th Century Changes in Chinese Apparel20世纪早期中国服饰的变化

The first ten years of the 20th century coincided with the last decade of the Manchurian Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The Boxer Uprising in 1900 against the foreign allied forces prompted the Qing government to make changes in its politics but not in the apparel of state officials. This featured the queue, or pigtail, which all Chinese men wore as a sign of allegiance to Qing rule, and the peacock feathers in officials' hats that gave Westerners such an eccentric impression of people in China and the Far East. 20世纪的第一个最初十年即是满清王朝(1644—1911)最后的十年。1900年,对抗外国联军的“义和团运动”引致了清政府政策上的改变,但是并未改变国家官员的装扮,其特色在于所有的中国男人都留有辫子,或称猪尾,以示效忠于清朝的统治,装饰于官员帽顶的孔雀羽毛,使得中国人乃至远东人给西方人留下一种古怪的印象。

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