Citations:watermelon cap

English citations of watermelon cap

• 1919, Samuel Isett Woodbridge, Fifty Years in China, Richmond: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, page 113:

  Would it not be better to dress in Chinese garb? […] He purchased for a few dollars a complete Chinese costume, heelless cloth shoes and all. A watermelon cap for twenty-five cents completed the outfit.

• 1985, Eping Zhang, Kim Lem, “Chen Yun’s Role after the Cultural Revolution”, in Asian Affairs, volume 12, number 1, →DOI, page 56:

  If he had really been ill, how does one explain Chen's finger in every pie—political, economic, and even the cultural arts? It is safe to assume that this was Chen's way: taking a step backward so that he might fully assess the situation. This, of course, was typical of the Shanghai businessmen of Mao Dun's novels who wore watermelon caps and held waterpipes.

• 2003, Antonia Finnane, “Yangzhou’s “Mondernity”: Fashion and Consumption in the Early Nineteenth Century”, in positions, volume 11, number 2, page 410:

  In his butterfly shoes and watermelon cap, jade hooks on his belt for carrying watch and tobacco pouch, rain protector over his sedan chair for wet weather, grass-cloth jacket to change into when the days turned warm, his wife in pleated crepe skirt with five-terrace sleeve jacket, her tiny shoes fragrant with sweet-smelling scent, the man-about-town in early-nineteenth-century Yangzhou presented a figure rather specific to his own time.

• 2012, Tie Ning, translated by Hongling Zhang and Jason Sommer, The Bathing Women, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 236:

  Later, to ease the tension between them, Tiao bought for Fan from the Friendship Store a boy rag doll in a red flower-patterned cotton jacket and infants' split pants with a traditional watermelon cap.