I've never seen a Chinese person whose skin is remotely what I'd call "yellow". As I said, I'm no good at differentiating neighbouring shades of colour, but all the Chinese people I know, or see around - and that's a fair number - seem to have skin colour well within the range of variation of native Europeans. (Which overlaps with the range of variation of people referred to as "black".)

"Sallow" might possibly be a more fitting word, but "yellow" just seems weird. Like describing Native Americans as "red", when the only genuinely red people are Northern Europeans who've caught the sun.

Where there is a lot less variation, of course, is in hair colour, which is pretty consistently black in most parts of the world, even thoygh the texture varies. Europe and places colonised from Europe are the exception, with hair in a relatively wide range of colours.

But of course hair colour isn't just natural colour - there's a lot of hair colours you see on the streets which bear no relation to anything you fin din nature. Actually I quite like that - of people are going to dye their hair it's much more fun if they dye them cheerful bright colurs or combinations of colours.

I expect before too long we'll be seeing the same thing happening with skin - blue and green and scarlet people. Brighten up the place on a dull day. Of course the more lurid Morris and Molly dancers are ahead of the game here already...(And here's another shot. But I'd like to see it with people when they are going abouit the daily business of living, the way you do with hair colours these days.