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lorigreys-blog · 4 months

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I’m daddy’s girl🎀🤍

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garternstocking · 9 months

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#lingerie #stockings #china doll

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jewellery-box · 10 months

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Some lovely porcelain dolls from my grandma's apartment 👒

#china dolls #porcelain dolls #china doll #porcelain doll #collection #collecting

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moonandserpent · 9 months

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Got the morbs.

#moon and serpent #handmade jewelry #spider ring #coffin shaped #alice in wonderland #19th century #victorian #dollhouse #antique doll #china doll #porcelain doll #miniature

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nocternalrandomness · 2 months

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Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) First US Woman Pilot

Quimby was the first woman to receive a US pilot’s license, issued by the Aero Club of America in 1911. The following year, she was the first woman to fly across the English Channel. But unfortunately, she got little media attention for her accomplishment since it occurred the day after the Titanic sank.

Quimby competed in races and flying meets, always drawing a crowd. Like many early aviatrixes, Quimby capitalized on her popularity with the press, who nicknamed her the “China Doll.” Quimby was also a well-known Hollywood screenwriter.

Unfortunately, she died less than a year after getting her pilot’s license in an incident at a Boston aviation meet.

#Harriet Quimby #First US woman pilot #female pilot #women in aviation #aviation pioneers #China Doll #aviation history #aviatrixes #women pioneers #flying #aviation #pilot

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bettie-may-page · 9 months

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Gorgeous

#bettie page #bettiepage #sexy #long hair #beautiful smile #long legs #betty page #beautiful face #beautiful eyes #hand fan #china doll #seductive

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elisabeta-darling · 5 months

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My baby sister✨💕

#littlesister #selfie #stunning #russian doll #china doll #imissyousomuch

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eleutheria4ever · 5 months

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i can be your china doll, if you wanna see me fall

#girlblogging #coquette #lana del rey #sad girl autumn #lizzy grant #this is a girlblog #girlcore #just girly things #violet bent backwards over the grass #sylvia plath #paradise #china doll #lucky ones #dollette #summer #autumn #body electric #pretty little liars

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molination · 1 year

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Feng Nuxi's design and the China Doll Nightclub

Recently, I stumbled across a tumblr thread that discusses the inspiration behind Feng Nuxi’s character design. It says that Feng Nuxi’s design refers to the costumes of the female Chinese American performers in the China Doll Nightclub. As the representative of the American born Chinese society, I have to elaborate on the China Doll Nightclub.

In 1938, a Chinese American club owner Charlie Low (picture below) established a nightclub called the Forbidden City in San Francisco, California. The Forbidden City quickly became the most popular “suey chop circuit”, a network of Chinese American cabaret performers in California during the 40s to 50s, among the nightlife industry in California's Chinatowns.

The Suey chop circuit completely revolutionized the nightclub life in Chinatown and California in general. Chinese American performers began to mash their singing, dancing, and dressing to fit the fashion and trends of Mainland China and also United States at the time. As the suey chop circuit gained popularity, white people saw how different the performers at Chinese nightclubs looked and acted, and took note of that.

In 1946, stage producer Tom Bell established a Chinese nightclub in New York on Broadway Street called “China Doll”. Unlike the suey chop circuits in California, “China Doll” plays with the East Asian stereotypes and the “oriental” aesthetic. Initially, Bell had promoted the club as “New York’s only oriental nightclub” and later on performers at the “China Doll” had to perform shows with names such as “Maid in China” and “Slant Eyed Scandals.” Like black nightclubs, the China performers at “China Doll”

As racist as this could be, “China Doll” helped expand the suey chop circuit from California to all parts of the United States, introducing the Chinese American performers to a broader, newer audience, and boosted the careers of many Chinese American entertainers.

Source: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/china-doll-nightclub/GwHMxxyMzX5cyQ?hl=ena

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