Although Shanghai was westernized in many ways, posing in the nude was still considered at the time to be a scandalous and immoral practice of the foreign barbarians.
當時的上海，洋化程度雖深，但對公然裸袒於課堂上，供作學生繪畫寫生，仍視為蠻夷鄙俗，大逆不道。