Changing clothes in China
Subtitle: fashion, modernity, nation
By: by Antonia Finnane.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780231143509; 9780231512732
Subjects: Clothing and dress -- China -- History; Fashion -- China -- History; China -- Social life and customs
Table of contents: title: Introduction: fashion, history, nation; title: Ways of seeing; title: Fashions in late imperial China; title: Soldiers and citizens; title: The fashion industry in Shanghai; title: Qipao China; title: Brother's clothes; title: The new look in the new China; title: Dressed to kill in the Cultural Revolution; title: Breaking with the past; title: Conclusion: China, fashion, history.