Editing Gweilo (section)

==Etymology and history==
''Gwái'' ({{linktext|鬼}}, ''gui'' in Mandarin) means "ghost" or "devil",<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=%E9%AC%BC&email= |title=鬼 |work=MDBG }}</ref> and ''lóu'' ({{linktext|佬}}) means "man" or "guy". The literal translation of ''gwáilóu'' would thus be "ghost man" or "devil man".<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e5AQTRptrk0C&pg=PA69 |title=A Dictionary of Hong Kong English: Words from the Fragrant Harbor |author= Patrick J. Cummings |author2= Hans-Georg Wolf |page=69 |publisher= Hong Kong University Press |year=2011 |isbn=9789888083305 }}</ref> It is sometimes translated into English as "foreign devil".<ref name="Lafay">{{cite book |title=The Chinese Have a Word for It: The Complete Guide to Chinese Thought and Culture |last=Lafayette De Mente |first=Boyé |year=2000 |publisher=[[McGraw-Hill Professional|McGraw-Hill]] |isbn=978-0-658-01078-1 |page=145 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx8AC_d3lWgC&q=Lafayette+De+Mente,+Boy%C3%A9.+The+Chinese+Have+a+Word+for+It:+The+Complete+Guide+to+Chinese+Thought+and+Culture,&pg=PR1 |access-date=28 October 2016 |archive-date=21 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221201006/https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx8AC_d3lWgC&pg=PR1&dq=Lafayette+De+Mente,+Boy%C3%A9.+The+Chinese+Have+a+Word+for+It:+The+Complete+Guide+to+Chinese+Thought+and+Culture,&cd=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> In many [[Sinitic languages]], "鬼" gwai and its local equivalents can be a derogatory term used as a curse or an insult.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Wph7HEm958C&pg=PA4 |title=The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventheenth-century Chinese Literature |author=Judith T. Zeitlin |page=4 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0824830915 |access-date=23 October 2018 |archive-date=7 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307145704/https://books.google.com/books?id=8Wph7HEm958C&pg=PA4 |url-status=live }}</ref>  The term ''鬼'' gwai has also been used to describe other ethnic groups, for example, a 17th-century writer from [[Guangdong|Canton]], {{ill|Qu Dajun|zh|屈大均|zh-yue|屈大均}}, wrote that Africans "look like ghosts", and ''gwáinòuh'' ({{zh|c={{linktext|鬼|奴}}|l=ghost slave}}) was once used to describe African slaves.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LP9q1dzVRYQC&pg=PA86 |title=Macau History and Society |author= Zhidong Hao |page=86|publisher=Hong Kong University Press |year= 2011 |isbn= 978-9888028542 }}</ref>