Vaguely Interesting Snippets | 18 February 2014 Chinese men had to adopt a hairstyle to show submission to the emperor After a failed uprising, China’s Qing rulers issued an edict ordering all Chinese men to shave their forehead and to braid the rest of their hair into a hairstyle known in English as a ‘queue’ (or ‘cue’). This would make the Han majority identical to those […]
