辜鸿铭

Teaching at 北大 after 1917, he still wore the queue of the Qing. When students laughed, he is said to have told them that the queue on his head was easy to cut off, but the queue in their minds was not.

history

Born in Penang to a Chinese father and a European mother, he studied in Edinburgh and Germany, then served for some twenty years on the staff of the Qing official 张之洞. His English book The Spirit of the Chinese People (1915) defends Confucian values.