Since the mid-19th Century, European and American traders, diplomats, missionaries, soldiers and tourists began to appear in great numbers along the China coast. They soon noticed that there was a small elite group in the Empire with their own distinctive costume, language, and above all, an exquisite style of living. The early Western visitors referred to them with the Romanized term "Mandarin." "Man" was short for "Manchus," the rulers of China at that time, and "Da-rin" literally means "Big Shot," an honorific salutation for all government officials.

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