Comments on: Morning Tea for January 27, 2009: Hip-hype in Beijing, Traitorous Officials, Yi Jianlian: Threat to Democracy, Earthquake in Xinjiang http://granitestudio.org/2009/01/27/morning-tea-for-january-27-2009-hip-hype-in-beijing-traitorous-officials-yi-jianlian-threat-to-democracy-earthquake-in-xinjiang/ A Qing historian reads the newspaper... Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom http://granitestudio.org/2009/01/27/morning-tea-for-january-27-2009-hip-hype-in-beijing-traitorous-officials-yi-jianlian-threat-to-democracy-earthquake-in-xinjiang/comment-page-1/#comment-10224 Tom Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:07:13 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=759#comment-10224 The statues in the museum of crooked officials are fun. You can watch the fashions change over the dynasties, especially the hats! The pillbox hat of the Classical era gives way to the Imperial hat with flaps, which is followed by the round Manchu cap and then the hatless guy in a suit (why not a fedora?). They should've had someone in a Mao suit, though, to round out the fashions. I nominate Jiang Qing. The statues in the museum of crooked officials are fun. You can watch the fashions change over the dynasties, especially the hats! The pillbox hat of the Classical era gives way to the Imperial hat with flaps, which is followed by the round Manchu cap and then the hatless guy in a suit (why not a fedora?).

They should’ve had someone in a Mao suit, though, to round out the fashions. I nominate Jiang Qing.

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