Chinese looks : fashion, performance, race / Sean Metzger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metzger, Sean, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion--China.

Fashion.

Fashion design--China.

Fashion design.

Popular culture--China.

Popular culture.

Chinese in motion pictures.

China--Race relations.

China.

China--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From yellow-face performance in the 19th century to Jackie Chan in the 21st, Chinese Looks examines articles of clothing and modes of adornment as a window on how American views of China have changed in the past 150 years. Sean Metzger provides a cultural history of three iconic objects in theatrical and cinematic performance: the queue, or man''s hair braid; the woman''s suit known as the qipao; and the Mao suit. Each object emerges at a pivotal moment in US-China relations, indexing shifts in the balance of power between the two nations. Metzger shows how aesthetics, gender, politics, econom

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 THE QUEUE; 1 Charles Parsloe's Chinese Fetish; 2 Screening Tails; PART 2 THE QIPAO; 3 Anna May Wong and the Qipao's American Debut; 4 Exoticus Eroticus, or the Silhouette of Suzie's Slits during the Cold War; 5 Cut from Memory: Wong Kar-Wai's Fashionable Homage; PART 3 THE MAO SUIT; 6 An Unsightly Vision; 7 Uniform Beliefs?; 8 Mao Fun Suits; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253015686

0253015685

OCLC:

892430093