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Author : Sara Liao
Publisher : Digital Barricades
ISBN 13 : 9780745340692
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Fashioning China written by Sara Liao and published by Digital Barricades. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of women creating fake fashion in China - and how it affects the economy, labour, creativity and culture.
Author : Sara Liao
Publisher : Digital Barricades
ISBN 13 : 9780745340708
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Fashioning China written by Sara Liao and published by Digital Barricades. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of women creating fake fashion in China - and how it affects the economy, labour, creativity and culture.
Author : Wessie Ling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838608516
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Fashion in Multiple Chinas written by Wessie Ling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the transformation of China from being a clothing-manufacturing site to a fast-rate fashion consuming society. Less, however, has been written on the process of making Chinese fashion. The expert contributors to Fashion in Multiple Chinas explore how the many Chinese fashions operate across the widespread, fragmented and diffused, Chinese diaspora. They confront the idea of Chinese nationalism as `one nation', as well as of China as a single reality, in revealing the realities of Chinese fashion as diverse and comprising multiple practices. They also demonstrate how the making of Chinese fashion is composed of numerous layers, often involving a web of global entanglements between manufacturing and circulation, retailing and branding. They cover the mechanics of the PRC fashion industry, the creative economy of Chinese fashion, its retail and branding, and the cultural identity of Chinese fashion from the diasporas comprising the transglobal landscape of fashion production.
Author : Jianhua Zhao
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847889387
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Fashion Industry written by Jianhua Zhao and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less than three decades ago, when the Chinese bought cloth or clothes, they would have had to use a government-issued coupon. Today the Chinese fashion industry is one of the most dynamic in the world - it not only supplies fashions to the increasingly discerning domestic market, but also provides one-third of the clothing sold in the global market. How did this phenomenal transition come about? What can the growth of the Chinese fashion industry tell us about the post-Mao China? What roles do the local and the global play in the dramatic changes? This book offers a historically informed, ethnographically grounded and interpretive analysis of contemporary Chinese fashion and the fashion industry. It examines the interplay of state politics, market forces, local social and cultural factors, and the global political economy, both in the rise of the Chinese fashion industry and in the life and work of Chinese fashion professionals. As the first ethnographic account of the Chinese fashion industry in the post-Mao era, The Chinese Fashion Industry combines first-hand accounts with sophisticated cultural analysis to offer new insights, and will be of interest to students and scholars of fashion, anthropology and China.
Author : Christopher Breward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350051152
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Styling Shanghai written by Christopher Breward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Styling Shanghai is the first book dedicated to exploring the city's fashion cultures, examining its growing status as one of the world's foremost fashion cities. From its origins as an international treaty port in the 19th century, Shanghai has emerged as a global leader in the production, mediation and consumption of fashion. This book reveals how the material and imaginative context of this thriving urban centre has produced vivid interpretations of fashion as object, image and idea. Bringing together contributions by a range of leading international fashion historians and theorists, and drawing on extensive original research, Styling Shanghai offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the mega-city's shifting position as a fashion capital. Rooted in collaboration between leading UK, Australian and Shanghai-based institutions, it considers the impact of local and global textile manufacturing, the representation and marketing of 'Shanghai Style', bodies and gender in the 'Paris of the East', and the challenges of globalization, commercialization and digital communication in contemporary Shanghai.
Author : Antonia Finnane
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1787387828
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Changing Clothes in China written by Antonia Finnane and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. In this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane challenges this view, which she argues is based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century representations of Chinese dress as traditional and unchanging. Fashions, she shows, were part of Chinese life in the late imperial era, even if a fashion industry was not then apparent. In the early twentieth century the key features of modern fashion became evident, particularly in Shanghai, and rapidly changing dress styles showed the effects. The volatility of Chinese dress throughout the twentieth century matched vicissitudes in national politics. Finnane describes in detail how the close-fitting jacket and high collar of the 1911 Revolutionary period, the skirt and jacket-blouse of the May Fourth era, and the military style popular in the Cultural Revolution gave way finally to the variegated, globalized wardrobe of today. She brilliantly connects China’s modernization and global visibility with changes in dress, offering a vivid portrait of the complex, subtle, and sometimes contradictory ways the people of China have worn their nation on their backs.
Author : 華梅
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521186897
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Chinese Clothing written by 華梅 and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated introduction to Chinese clothing discusses the development and transformation of distinctive Chinese fashions through the ages.
Author : Antonia Finnane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231512732
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Changing Clothes in China written by Antonia Finnane and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based largely on nineteenth and twentieth-century representations of Chinese dress as traditional and unchanging, historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. But in this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane proves that vibrant fashions were a vital part of Chinese life in the late imperial era, when well-to-do men and women showed a keen awareness of what was up-to-date. Though foreigners who traveled to China in the early decades of the twentieth century came away with the impression that Chinese dress was simple and monotone, the key features of modern fashion were beginning to emerge, especially in Shanghai. Men in blue gowns donned felt caps and leather shoes, girls began to wear fitted jackets and narrow pants, and homespun garments gave way to machine-woven cloth, often made in foreign lands. These innovations marked the start of a far-reaching vestimentary revolution that would transform the clothing culture in urban and much of rural China over the next half century. Through Finnane's meticulous research, we are able to see how the close-fitting jacket and high collar of the 1911 Revolutionary period, the skirt and jacket-blouse of the May Fourth era, and the military style popular in the Cultural Revolution led to the variegated, globalized wardrobe of today. She brilliantly connects China's modernization and global visibility with changes in dress, offering a vivid portrait of the complex, subtle, and sometimes contradictory ways the people of China have worn their nation on their backs.
Author : Valery Garrett
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290694X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Chinese Dress written by Valery Garrett and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes to the fashions of modern China. A comprehensive and sumptuously illustrated book, Chinese Dress is the essential reference for costume historians, fashion designers and collectors, as well as lovers of beautiful clothes everywhere. Chapters include: Dress of the Qing Manchu Rulers 1644-1911 Dress of the Manchu Consorts 1644-1911 Attire of Mandarins and Merchants Attire of Chinese Women Republican Dress 1912-1949 Clothing of the Lower Classes Clothing for Children Dress in New China 1950-2006 From Imperial robes to foot binding to the cheongsam, Chinese Dress spotlights traditional Chinese dress against a background of historical, cultural and social change, opening a fascinating window for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of China, Chinese culture and Chinese fashion history.
Author : Christine Tsui
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847888600
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)
Download or read book China Fashion written by Christine Tsui and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the stories of three generations of designers this book charts the rise of fashion design in China. It takes us from the pre-communist country, through the austere and isolated China of the 1950s and '60s and on to the attempts at global integration of China's modern generation.
Author : Yuli Bai
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811629269
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Fashion in 21st Century China written by Yuli Bai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamic landscape of fashion in China since the beginning of the 21st century through an integrated perspective. The book considers key questions related to the changes in China’s fashion dynamics driven largely by the shifts in the mindset of Chinese consumers due to the current sociocultural contexts. To provide an understanding of these important shifts, this three-part monograph pays close attention to the new generation of Chinese fashion designers and consumers. The book explores in detail related topics such as, how today’s Chinese consumers relate to foreign brands, the meaning of apparel brands as identity symbols or cultural signs to contemporary young consumers, the attractiveness of Western fashion designers and brands in the eyes of current Chinese consumers as compared to past consumers, and how brands could adapt to the online-centered consumption behavior. The book serves as an insightful update on the Chinese fashion landscape for researchers, practitioners and passionate followers of its evolution.
Author : Shaorong Yang
Publisher : LONG RIVER PRESS
ISBN 13 : 9781592650194
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Traditional Chinese Clothing written by Shaorong Yang and published by LONG RIVER PRESS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full color look at the history of traditional and ceremonial clothing in China.
Author : BuYun Chen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295745312
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Empire of Style written by BuYun Chen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regulations on dress to acquire majestic silks and au courant designs, as shifts in economic and social structures gave rise to what we now recognize as precursors of a modern fashion system: a new consciousness of time, a game of imitation and emulation, and a shift in modes of production. This first book on fashion in premodern China is informed by archaeological sources—paintings, figurines, and silk artifacts—and textual records such as dynastic annals, poetry, tax documents, economic treatises, and sumptuary laws. Tang fashion is shown to have flourished in response to a confluence of social, economic, and political changes that brought innovative weavers and chic court elites to the forefront of history. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/empire-of-style
Author : Feng Jie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350200093
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Fashion in Altermodern China written by Feng Jie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion in Altermodern China examines key features of women's fashion within the cultural and political context of contemporary China. While global brands and styles heavily influence Chinese consumer trends, the Chinese fashion 'system' is formed of its own internal logics and emergent trends, too. Adopting the theoretical term 'altermodern', Feng Jie encourages us to view China in terms of its rapid modernization which presents its own rhythms and meanings, and argues persuasively that Chinese fashion can't be wholly understood in terms of a Western discourse of modernity, postmodernity and the global. Expanding our understanding of the fashion 'system', Fashion in Altermodern China takes on board new trends in global trade, new technologies, and the hybridity of designs and consumption of fashion. Through critical readings of Barthes, on the 'neutral', and Jullien, on 'blandness', both directly influenced by Asian philosophies, the author offers a new perspective on Chinese fashion, arguing that, while global-local contexts lead to identifiably postmodern and hybrid aesthetics, for women in contemporary China the flux and mix of available fashions is experienced in a more open neutral manner than scholars have previously described. Crucially, then, rather than position trends in China only in terms of 'hybridity' (which betrays a Western bias and a binary logic of host-recipient), there are more fluid ways in which we need to understand how women engage in fashion in China today.
Author : Gemma Williams
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500291640
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Fashion China written by Gemma Williams and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting survey of the new talents in fashion design from China, curated by a panel of Chinese style experts Like its economy and art scene, Chinese fashion is on the rise, with an increasingly prominent international presence. Spurred by a new generation of creative and ambitious designers, and championed by actresses like Fan Bingbing and Zhang Ziyi, as well as China’s First Lady, Peng Liyuan, Chinese fashion now walks the runways, not only in Shanghai and Beijing but also in London, Paris, Tokyo, and New York. Fashion China is an important new survey of the top Chinese fashion designers working today, selected for the book by a jury of experts on Chinese fashion that includes supermodel Liu Wen; Director of Harper’s Bazaar China, Lucia Liu; and TV host and fashion writer Hung Huang. Profiles of each designer include a description of their styles and an interview with Gemma Williams, exploring their training, inspiration, and technical approaches. These are accompanied by 450 illustrations offering a rich survey of the looks that make Chinese fashion unique. From the opulent couture of Guo Pei to the minimalist ready-to-wear of Uma Wang and the surreal structuralism of Xiao Li, the designers featured here offer an unexpected and enticing combination of tradition and modernity, of Asian heritage and Western influence.
Author : Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology Valerie Steele
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300079302
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (793 download)
Download or read book China Chic written by Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology Valerie Steele and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the historical significance of Chinese clothing, and offers examples and commentary on fashions ranging from the dragon robes of the Imperial era to the cheongsams shown on the runways in Paris
Author : Andrew Bolton
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0300211120
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book China written by Andrew Bolton and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries China has fueled the creative imagination and inspired fashion. This stunning publication explores the influence of Chinese art, film, and aesthetics on international fashion designers, including Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, and Yves Saint Laurent.
