Speaking of literature, there is very little in the way of good and accessible English literature on Chinese material culture. I have about 600 period images in my catalog which took a significant amount of time to parse through, date, and organize by century, region, and dynasty.

All available in the pack are visible on period artwork, however. He is correct, however, in that depictions of Emperors for two of the dynasties with the largest traction wore certain styles moreso than others, which is why more than half of the options that can be chosen are variations of those exact possibilities. There isn't a single hairstyle that isn't attested in contemporaneous record or academic literature. Some also have pretty wicked hanging sideburns. Out of those choices, there is not a single isolated 'Fu Manchu' since almost all corner moustaches seemed to be paired with chin hair. This is the reason that there are only two (2) full beards out of twenty (20) facial hair choices. He's accurate in that typical depictions of Chinese individuals do not usually have large beards. That being said, OP is possibly mistaken and not mistaken at the same time. In promotional art and livestreams you see a only a tiny handful of the possible combinations. There are more of them than probably any other pack. I don't watch the streams, so I don't know how many facial hair sets have been shown. The material isn't out yet, but the Chinese set is probably the largest in sheer volume of content for an individual portrait pack. The 'reason' is that he's operating on little data.

I got clearance this morning to talk about them.

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