ISBN:
1838608516
,
1838608508
,
9781838608514
,
9781838608507
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 270 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Dress Cultures
DDC:
391.00951
Keywords:
Fashion Social aspects
;
Fashion merchandising
;
Fashion Economic aspects
;
Fashion merchandising
;
Fashion ; Social aspects
;
Bekleidungsindustrie
;
Globalisierung
;
Mode
;
HEALTH & FITNESS ; Beauty & Grooming
;
Fashion ; Economic aspects
;
China
;
China
Abstract:
Introduction -- Multiple ChinasWessie Ling & Simone Segre-ReinachSection 1 PRC Chinese Fashion IndustryTextiles and Apparel in the Mao years: Uniformity, Variety, and the Limits of Autarchy- Antonia Finnane & Peidong Sun 2. Local Productions, Global Connections: Making Fashion in China- Jianhau Zhao3. Designed in China: Multiple Approaches to Fashion and Retail -- Juanjuan Wu, Yue Hu, Lei Xu, Marilyn R. Delong4. 'Creative Economy' in China: A Case Study of Shanghai's Fashion Industries -- Xin GuSection 2 Fashion in other Chinas5. Does Fashion Identity Matter? The Cases of Hong Kong and Taiwan -- Wessie Ling6. Multiple Cosplay: Raiding the Dressing Up Box across Hong Kong and China -Anne Pierson-Smith7. Hybrid Fashion: A Study of Singapore's Cosmopolitan Identity from the 1950s to the Present May Khuen Chung Section 3 Chinese Fashion and the West8. Romeo Gigli Reborn in China? -- Simona Segre-Reinach9. Chinese Fashion Designers -- Becoming International -- Hazel ClarkBibliographyIndex.
Abstract:
This impressive book reframes all general and many specialist understandings of Chinese fashion. It turns on its head nearly everything I was taught and have imagined about dress in China, from the period of Mao to the present day"--Peter McNeil, Distinguished Professor in Design History, University of Technology, Sydney
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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