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"Young people in China want traditional non-Western Han clothing back in fashion"

It seems like they are more anti-Manchurian than anti-Western. Their main aim seems to be to emphasize that Han people shouldn't wear Qing clothes, rather than to reject Western aesthetics.

Across China, some young people are switching from jeans and T-shirts to long dresses, silky robes and black hats.

Jeans and T-shirts are Counterculture clothes, not Western clothes. In particular, the T-shirt being collarless and cuffless:



is actually closer to Qing style:

https://img9.doubanio.com/view/photo/l/public/p2585786663.webp

than to Western style which is defined by collars and cuffs:



originating from this ****:



But if these people are actually motivated by dislike for Qing style, then it is no surprise they would reject T-shirts (which have similar geometry) also.

So while I would support the movement in principle, in practice I am not optimistic. Not least because I have already noticed Chinese Eurocentrist filmmakers trying to sneak in Western sartorial elements and passing them off as "Han":











Of course lapels are also Western:



as are epaulettes:



Still think I'm exaggerating about how bad Eurocentrism is?