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Fashion in Multiple Chinas
Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape
Fashion in Multiple Chinas
Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape
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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.
Table of Contents
Wessie Ling & Simone Segre-Reinach
Section 1 PRC Chinese Fashion Industry
Textiles 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 Zhao
3. Designed in China: Multiple Approaches to Fashion and Retail -
Juanjuan Wu, Yue Hu, Lei Xu, Marilyn R. Delong
4. 'Creative Economy' in China: A Case Study of Shanghai's Fashion Industries
- Xin Gu
Section 2 Fashion in other Chinas
5. Does Fashion Identity Matter? The Cases of Hong Kong and Taiwan –
Wessie Ling
6. Multiple Cosplay: Raiding the Dressing Up Box across Hong Kong and China -
Anne Pierson-Smith
7. Hybrid Fashion: A Study of Singapore's Cosmopolitan Identity from the 1950s to the Present
May Khuen Chung
Section 3 Chinese Fashion and the West
8. Romeo Gigli Reborn in China? - Simona Segre-Reinach
9. Chinese Fashion Designers – Becoming International -
Hazel Clark
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 20 Apr 2018 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781838608514 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 35 bw integrated |
| Series | Dress Cultures |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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