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 27
not common amongthem, they are invaluable. They are rather slow, and donot like to be put out of their way, but they do their workwell and neatly. Every European resident at Canton andMacao has Chinese servants, which on the whole, are pre-ferable to any other race of Orientals. Thev are… … C HUKA-iPJLATi h,H -Ijii 1A4 I;, JJfarnw .1!):-m..rle Strrrt. PLATE V.A MANDARIN IN HIS COURT DRESS. All officers of state., whether civil or military., from thehighest to the lowest, have been named by the early Por-tuguese writers mandarins, from a word in their ownlanguage, mandar, to command ;…
Clothing and dress
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