As Stephen Wong points out in his Asia Times Online essay: “Discussion about hanfu [i.e., Chinese-style dress] started in 2001 after China hosted the APEC summit in Shanghai, where each participant was presented with a tangzhuang, […]

And for the oughts—by which I suppose we must identify our new millennium's first decade—projected tonnage figures keep up the mind-boggling pace.

Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I'll swear it.

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