Fashion in multiple Chinas : Chinese styles in the transglobal landscape / edited by Wessie Ling and Simona Segre-Reinach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ling, Wessie, editor.

Segre, Simona, editor.

Series:

Dress cultures.

Dress cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion merchandising--China.

Fashion merchandising.

Fashion--Social aspects--China.

Fashion.

Fashion--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

1. Fashion-Making in the Transglobal Landscape

Part I: People's Republic of China's Fashion Industry

2. Textiles and Apparel in the Mao Years: Uniformity, Variety and the Limits of Autarchy

3. Local Productions, Global Connections: Making Fashion in China

4. Designed in China: Multiple Approaches to Fashion and Retail

5. 'Creative Economy' in China: A Case Study of Shanghai's Fashion Industries

Part II: Fashion in Other Chinas

6. Beneath the Co-created Chinese Fashion: Translocal and Transcultural Exchange Between China and Hong Kong

7. Multiple Faces of Cosplay: Raiding the Dressing-Up Box across the China Region

8. Hybrid Fashion: A Study of Singapore's Cosmopolitan Identity from the 1950s to the Present

Part III: Chinese Fashion and the West

9. Chinese Fashion Designers: Becoming International

10. Romeo Gigli Reborn in China?

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83860-851-6

OCLC:

1099790964