The agitation, now in progress, for the final abolition of the queue may be due to one or all of the following reasons.

Intelligent Chinese may have come to realize that the fashion is cumbrous and out of date.

Sensitive Chinese may fear that it makes them ridiculous in the eyes of foreigners.

Political Chinese, who would gladly see the re-establishment of a native dynasty, may look to its disappearance as the first step towards throwing off the Manchu yoke.
On the whole, the ruling Manchus have shown themselves very careful not to wound the susceptibilities of their Chinese subjects.

Besides allowing the women to retain their own costume, and the dead, men and women alike, to be buried in the costume of the previous dynasty, it was agreed from the very first that no Chinese concubines should be taken into the Palace.