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467: 328:. Zhao had only coiled up his queue, and has now let it down. Mrs Sevenpounder notices that he is wearing his special gown which he only does when an enemy has met with misfortune. Zhao bears Sevenpounder a grudge, and taunts him that he will now be executed. Trusting in Zhao's scholarship, Mrs Sevenpounder gives up all hope and curses her husband for having shaven off his queue. Another neighbour remembers that Mrs Sevenpounder did not object when her husband stopped growing his queue, and an argument breaks out. 481: 275: 27: 331:
A fortnight later, Mrs Sevenpounder notices that Mr Zhao has coiled up his queue again, and is not wearing his gown. The Sevenpounders relax, as it seems the emperor is not coming back after all. They begin
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attempted to restore Puyi to the throne, but the revolt collapsed in a fortnight. Given the primitive communications infrastructure in China, this news took longer to spread to rural and remote areas.
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males were forced on pain of execution to adopt the queue, a Manchurian hairstyle consisting of shaving the forehead and wearing the rest of one's hair in a long plait. On the other hand, during the
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The boatman Sevenpounder (七斤) comes back to his village one night, bringing the news to his family that "the Emperor has returned to the
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was established and the queue was widely abandoned. In July 1917 the Qing loyalist
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of July 1917 and fears that he will be executed as he had abandoned the
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Selected Stories of Lu Hsun: The True Story of Ah Q, and Other Stories
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風波
Wikisource
Storm in a Teacup
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
pinyin
Lu Xun
Chinese literature
New Youth
A Call to Arms
Manchu Restoration
queue
Qing dynasty

China
Qing dynasty
Han Chinese
Taiping Rebellion
Puyi
Republic of China
Zhang Xun
Dragon Throne
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
binding
Capturing Chinese Short Stories from Lu Xun's Nahan

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