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How and when did the stereotypical French maid outfit become a fetish in the West and a staple of Lolita fashion in Japan?

255 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How did Japanese culture become so deeply entrenched in Western consciousness compared to Chinese and Korean culture?

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Did Sun Wukong exist before Journey to The West?

106 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Where does the popular image of Genies with a turban, jacket, thin facial hair, inhuman skin color and wisp-like tail come from?

78 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How accurate is the claim that the Catholic Church ordered cats to be killed en masse and worsened the Black Plague?

69 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Do we know the history of fugu? How did such a dangerous and hard to prepare fish become a delicacy in East Asia?

66 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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When and why did men having long hair stop being the norm in China?

52 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[EU] Two entities floating in the void, locked in a seemingly endless game of catch while a score is mysteriously kept... Tell me the backstory of Pong (1972).

32 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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How did early Chinese computers handle their 2000+ hanzi?

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Did non-Christian societies like China or India have a concept of "witchcraft", as in magical/religious practices the mainstream considered to be dangerous/heretic?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How and when did the stereotypical French maid outfit become a fetish in the West and a staple of Lolita fashion in Japan?	255	AskHistorians
How did Japanese culture become so deeply entrenched in Western consciousness compared to Chinese and Korean culture?	130	AskHistorians
Did Sun Wukong exist before Journey to The West?	106	AskHistorians
Where does the popular image of Genies with a turban, jacket, thin facial hair, inhuman skin color and wisp-like tail come from?	78	AskHistorians
How accurate is the claim that the Catholic Church ordered cats to be killed en masse and worsened the Black Plague?	69	AskHistorians
Do we know the history of fugu? How did such a dangerous and hard to prepare fish become a delicacy in East Asia?	66	AskHistorians
When and why did men having long hair stop being the norm in China?	52	AskHistorians
[EU] Two entities floating in the void, locked in a seemingly endless game of catch while a score is mysteriously kept... Tell me the backstory of Pong (1972).	32	WritingPrompts
How did early Chinese computers handle their 2000+ hanzi?	14	AskHistorians
Did non-Christian societies like China or India have a concept of "witchcraft", as in magical/religious practices the mainstream considered to be dangerous/heretic?	10	AskHistorians