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Master Zangpan

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Master Zangpan, poorly rendered.

Master Zangpan is tall, about five feet eleven inches, with impressively handsome oriental features, but in other aspects, notably his clothes and hair, he is quite peculiar.

His black hair is usually straight and extraordinarily long, parted in the middle and falling in waves down to his shoulders.

Malone, upon meeting him during the events of Professor Challenger in Space, commented that he had never seen a man with such long hair outside of an art gallery, but that although its style looked odd to his eyes, it was very clean and well-coiffured.

On that occasion, Zangpan's moustaches were as long as Lord Roxton’s were short, lushly lounging across his upper lip before dropping down to hang like curtains beside his firm chin. When he moved his head they swung to and fro like dancers in the royal ballet. As for his clothes; well, they require a paragraph of their own!

He wore a smoking jacket, nothing out of the ordinary there, you might think, but this particular smoking jacket was fabricated from velvet – purple velvet, no less – with silver stitching! The buttons, each of them the size of a penny farthing, were also silver. The collars of the jacket were wide enough to moor a boat upon, and embroidered upon them, as upon the cuffs, were the oriental symbols for yin and yang, contained within a ring of minuscule writing. His shirt, unbuttoned at the neck, shimmered in the light, refusing to stay a single colour. It had the same quality as oil floating in water beneath the sun. His tie, fastened but loosely about his neck, was purple, matching his jacket. Now I come to the most bizarre part of all – the trousers. Vertically striped with red and black, they were improperly full and loose, and very long, stretching down to cover his feet entirely (except when he moved around, thus revealing a pair of emerald sandals).

Master Zangpan made a further appearance in an extremely short story in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #15, "Master Zangpan's Resolution".