QOTD: “Kang Youwei went even further and suggested abolishing the dynasty’s queue requirement. In a lengthy account of the Meiji reforms titled A Study of the Governmental Reforms in Japan (Riben bianzheng kao), which he offered to the court in 1898, Kang too alluded to the desirability of the Qing emperor’s emulating the Japanese ruler, but unlike Jiang Shuzi, he referred not only to court dress but also to hairstyle. He wrote that in Japan “the official dress had all been changed to the Western style and the Japanese emperor had personally cut short his hair.” He implied that the Guangxu emperor should follow suit.” Manchus and Han by Edward J.M. Rhoads
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