ABSTRACT
A LTHOUGH the word is not a new one, the Chinesehave added to the richness of the English language by giving an added meaning and a new use to the word 'face'. In its new, Sinological, meaning, it was for a century or more purely a China Coast word, unknown except on the Western shores of the Pacific, but in 1934 it was formally adopted and legalised by the editors of the Oxford Dictionary, who define:
lose face, of Chinaman, be humiliated. save person's face, spare him from open shame.
