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Blushing

The young Chinese who blushed to his waist did so when asked by Mr G. "why do you not makebetter work."

Chinese in Malacca

[Darwin quotes from the letter from Frederick F. Geach April 1868, Correspondence vol. 16, p. 351: "With Chinese, in being detected in stealing petty things, falsehoods, &c, &c. The young Chinese Carpenter I spoke of blushed because I asked—Why do you not make better work? when his face, arms, breast & legs, blushed". In Expression, p. 317 Darwin wrote: "Mr. Geach informs me that the Chinese settled in Malacca and the native Malays of the interior both blush. Some of these people go nearly naked, and he particularly attended to the downward extension of the blush. Omitting the cases in which the face alone was seen to blush, Mr. Geach observed that the face, arms, and breast of a Chinaman, aged 24 years, reddened from shame; and with another Chinese, when asked why he had not done his work in better style, the whole body was similarly affected."