Unacceptable, or "unexpectable" (which I just found out isn't an actual word)?

I don't see why it would be unacceptable.

The Mingong Moustache seems to be really popular among the working class.

Goatees for the "rockers".

And a trimmed moustache with a soul patch for the "artsy" type.

Well seeing as how I look like a freakish man-child with a clean-shaven face, I don't really care what they think.

Some of them called me monkey, but I don't think that's a problem. My beard is just too important for me !

In my superstitious mind, all manliness lies in the beard. People with no beard will never live happy and will have bad no 2 for most of their lives. 

I am sure those who love hairless man look are pedos and perverted. So yea it's unacceptable to be straight in "modern" society.

I have a full beard since I was 24 with only a few instances of being clean shaven. Most, (not all) those who have criticized me have been unable to grow proper beards themselves....

I like it, I keep it trimmed and clean, so if people think it unacceptable or not, I really do not care.

Forget the beard, I am more wary of the fact that I have a hairy body.....

You're not a man until you can grow a beard. At the moment I'm sporting a boony (handle bars) get the looks but those looks are envy by Chinese men who wish they could grow such a masterpiece of facial hair.

Yea, I had a beard in college. I shaved it off after graduation so that I could get a job, and not a day goes by that I don't regret my choice. The only thing that puts me off it is that I look like a house cat for that week span that exists between no beard and full beard. 

My wife tells me that many Chinese laugh at us and joke amongst themselves that having so much hair makes us closer to cavemen. But forget about them, with their smooth feminine faces. They're like girls and prepubescent boys.

Everyone likes my face hair. Girls loved my body hair (arms, legs), but the wife doesn't since it acts as a brillo pad and she's very sensitive.

I had a mustache since I was in high school and beards off and on. Women at home either really love body hair or don't. After I came to China women would pet my arms like I was a cat with that innocent look they can have. I'm not extremely hairy. But they always pointed out my mustache and didn't like it. I shaved it off and never grew it back.

My gf hates it when I don't shave.  Even the 5 o'clock shadow ticks her off.  It has that same brillo pad effect Hulk was talking about.

Body hair however, is a different story.  It seems to be universally loved/envied here.  Good thing...as I no intention of shaving the body hair, ever.....except you know...

In my China travels I have found that Most Chinese women do not like facial hair but find body hair [毛, mao] attractive.

I fin it hilarious that if I grow out a beard Chinese people will call me a monkey. Meanwhile during spring/summer time I can't go a few minutes on the subway without seeing a women with a huge patch of hair in their armpits or overly hairy legs.

I think someone else made a valid argument that Chinese people (at least women) don't like facial hair as much but they don't mind or even like body hair.

good question.

I am kind of hairy my self, not like a dog but more like that heavily used mat that has bare patches and some patches that havent been worn down.

anyhow, I thought I would give my wife a break from the hair, so I shaved it all off.. from the side burns to the tip of my large toe (my wife is evil and has pulled at the big toe hair on occasion).

 anyhow. the hair on my arms never recovered as well as the rest of my hair. but for around a week i was constantly itchy, for around a month, my wife didnt hug me in bed. and for around 2 months I was surprisingly self conscious.

I also noticed that fur from the bed sheets (yeah I have fury bedsheets, its awesome)

would tend to stick to me during the night so when i woke up I would pockets of fur stuck to small sharp hairs.

my conclusion.: not worth it at all. never again, I dont care if I look like big foot, its not worth shaving.

side note. if anyone knows where I can get decent rabbit pelt skins, let me know. I will soon need new sheets.

  I hope not or my eyebrows are in danger of being deported.

  Actually, as another poster on this thread pointed out, criticizing foreigners for being hairy is kind of the pot calling the kettle black. I've seen some very pretty girls with very hairy legs in China, and it is NOT a good thing. The reasoning behind these girls not shaving is that if they shave the hair will grow faster and they don't want hairy legs. So they keep them hairy. Hmmm. But i'd forgive a hairy leg and a hairy armpit, if only they'd trim the front hedge from time to time. I had a girlfriend back in the day and when she took her kit off, it looked like she was giving birth to Don King. The last time I saw bush like that it had David Attenborough and a crew of cameramen clambering through it. Men are supposed to be hairy. Scissors are for trimming the verge.

What a strange question. Who cares? If a Chinese has a problem with a guy having a beard or mustache,etc. that's their problem. CHINA has much BIGGER problems to worry about.