That journal is now published electronically and, like China Heritage Quarterly, it appears under the aegis of the Australian Centre on China in the World. Michael Godley's 'The End of the Queue' first appeared in the pages of the December 1994 issue of East Asian History. From the 1890s cutting the queue was an overt gesture of rebellion, by 1911 it was an act integral to political revolution. In the early decades of the Qing dynasty the queue was the focus of resistance to Manchu dominance, and it became so again in the dying years of imperial rule. Attitudes towards the queue in China and more broadly were complex. Originally a physical expression of submission, the braided queue was also a sign of repression. The following essay offers a social history of the queue ( bianzi 辮子).
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