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A fashionable century : textile artistry and commerce in the late Qing / Rachel Silberstein

Silberstein, Rachel, 1977- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]

xviii, 276 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Literaturverzeichnis Seite 243 - 263

Erscheint auch als: Silberstein, Rachel : A fashionable century. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2020 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-295-74718-7 (hardcover)

978-0-295-74719-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2019041152

LB 94440  | LC 12440      Ähnliche Literatur

NK8883.A1

746.0951

Basisklassifikation: 15.79 (China) <Geschichte> ; 73.86 (Kleidung; Mode) <Volkskunde> ; 21.86 (Textilkunst)

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-ASIEN-DE-1a

*China ; Textilien ; Kleidung ; Design ; Mode ; Bekleidungsindustrie ; Textilhandel ; Qingdynastie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Textile design -- China -- History -- 19th century ; Textile industry -- China -- History -- 19th century ; Fashion -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- 19th century ; Women textile workers -- China -- History -- 19th century ; Women artisans -- China -- History -- 19th century

From early to late Qing : imagery, discourse, production -- Plays and poems : fashioning nineteenth-century decoration.

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"Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much about women's participation-as both consumers and producers-in the commercialization of textile handicrafts and the flourishing of urban popular culture in the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911). The potential of clothing and textiles to illuminate issues of gender and identity is examined in this interdisciplinary foray into cultural history and material culture, which draws on vernacular and commercial sources to explain these objects, rather than on the official and imperial texts that have prevailed in studies of Chinese dress history. As production systems and market economies created the modern phenomenon of fashion, commercialized handicrafts transformed the early modern Chinese fashion system. Challenging the conventional production model, in which isolated Chinese women embroidered items by themselves, Rachel Silberstein positions objects of fashionable dress within mid-Qing networks of urban guilds, operated commercial workshops, and subcontracted female workers. These networks gave Chinese women opportunities to participate in fashion in new, connected, and contemporary ways. The formation of a commercialized dress and handicraft industry was thus stimulated by female-oriented domestic fashionable consumption as well as by foreign markets"