Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions (1814)
Alexander, William, 1767-1816 · London, Printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer · leaf 199
sort of appendage to a man in power.Some half-dozen of them generally precede a mandarin ofrank when he goes in procession, but more especially whenhe attends a tribunal of justice. Their peculiar provinceseems to be that of keeping off the crowd. The feathersthey wear in their tall conical hats… … I i PLATE XLV1II.PUNISHMENT FOR INSOLENCE TO A SUPERIOR. Piercing the ear with various sharp instruments is amongthe punishments of the Chinese. A man who had beeninsolent to one of the suite of Lord Macartneys embassy,was sentenced to receive fifty strokes from the pant-zee orbamboo, in addition…
Clothing and dress
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