How To Make A Mao Suit

Author : Antonia Finnane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009359986

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How to Make a Mao Suit by Antonia Finnane Pdf

When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, new clothing protocols for state employees resulted in far-reaching changes in what people wore. In a pioneering history of dress in the Mao years (1949–1976), Antonia Finnane traces the transformation, using industry archives and personal stories to reveal a clothing regime pivoted on the so-called 'Mao suit'. The time of the Mao suit was the time of sewing schools and sewing machines, pattern books and homemade clothes. It was also a time of close economic planning, when rationing meant a limited range of clothes made, usually by women, from limited amounts of cloth. In an area of scholarship dominated by attention to consumption, Finnane presents a revisionist account focused instead on production. How to Make a Mao Suit provides a richly illustrated account of clothing that links the material culture of the Mao years to broader cultural and technological changes of the twentieth century.

Author : Antonia Finnane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009359955

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How to Make A Mao Suit by Antonia Finnane Pdf

Revisionist history of the transformation of clothing in China during the Mao years, 1949-1976.

Author : Wessie Ling,Simona Segre-Reinach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781838608514

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Fashion in Multiple Chinas by Wessie Ling,Simona Segre-Reinach Pdf

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 : Valerie Steele
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474264709

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The Berg Companion to Fashion by Valerie Steele Pdf

- An essential reference for students, curators and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, and the expanding range of disciplines that see fashion as imbued with meaning far beyond the material. - Over 300 in-depth entries covering designers, articles of clothing, key concepts and styles. - Edited and introduced by Valerie Steele, a scholar who has revolutionized the study of fashion, and who has been described by The Washington Post as one of "fashion's brainiest women." Derided by some as frivolous, even dangerous, and celebrated by others as art, fashion is anything but a neutral topic. Behind the hype and the glamour is an industry that affects all cultures of the world. A potent force in the global economy, fashion is also highly influential in everyday lives, even amongst those who may feel impervious. This handy volume is a one-stop reference for anyone interested in fashion - its meaning, history and theory. From Avedon to Codpiece, Dandyism to the G-String, Japanese Fashion to Subcultures, Trickle down to Zoot Suit, The Berg Companion to Fashion provides a comprehensive overview of this most fascinating of topics and will serve as the benchmark guide to the subject for many years to come.

Author : Antonia Finnane
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787387829

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Changing Clothes in China by Antonia Finnane Pdf

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 : Thierry Terret
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317745785

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London, Europe and the Olympic Games by Thierry Terret Pdf

London hosted the Olympic Games for the third time in 2012, a mega-event where the political, economic and social expectations could hardly be compared with the previous London Games of 1908 and 1948. In addition, the Olympic Games went back to Europe in 2012 after a long period where (apart from Athens in 2004) they were held by cities in other continents. In London, the world watched the Games. Continental Europe, however, generated a particular attitude based on the special relations it had developed historically with England. At the crossing point of history, cultural studies and geopolitics, this book provides new insights on the significance of the Olympic Games. It considers that the Games are the right window to look at both the past and the current relations between England and its closest continental neighbours. It will be ideal for students and academics working in sport sciences, cultural history, political science and European studies; amateur and professional sports historians; Olympic followers and experts in Olympic studies. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Jennifer Craik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : IND:30000101909657

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Uniforms Exposed by Jennifer Craik Pdf

Uniforms are perhaps the most widely worn garments in the world. Craik looks at the meaning of uniforms as well as how they have influenced fashion, and shows the centrality of uniforms to cultural politics. She draws on historical and contemporary examples of uniforms across different cultures.

Author : Michelle Murray Yang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315442587

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American Political Discourse on China by Michelle Murray Yang Pdf

Despite the U.S. and China’s shared economic and political interests, distrust between the nations persists. How does the United States rhetorically navigate its relationship with China in the midst of continued distrust? This book pursues this question by rhetorically analyzing U.S. news and political discourse concerning the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the 2010 U.S. midterm elections, the 2012 U.S. presidential election, and the 2014-2015 Chinese cyber espionage controversy. It finds that memory frames of China as the yellow peril and the red menace have combined to construct China as a threatening red peril. Red peril characterizations revive and revise yellow peril tropes of China as a moral, political, economic and military threat by imbuing them with anti-communist ideology. Tracing the origins, functions, and implications of the red peril, this study illustrates how historical representations of the Chinese threat continue to limit understanding of U.S.-Sino relations by keeping the nations’ relationship mired in the past.

Author : Kent G Deng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136655135

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China's Political Economy in Modern Times by Kent G Deng Pdf

This book examines Chinese political economy spanning from 1800 to to the dawn of the 21st century, shedding new light on our understanding of the reasons and impact of socio-political and socio-economic changes in China. Crossing over the three disciplines of history, politics and economics, the analyses China’s ideology, politics, and the economy using state-building as the key theme and puts the emphasis on China’s internal factors and mechanisms instead of the influence from Western imperialism or Japanese colonialism. It pays close attention to the movers and shakers inside Chinese society and carefully reveals historical contingencies which lend the reader a unique and radically different re-interpretation of China’s recent history.

Author : Sean Metzger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253015686

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Chinese Looks by Sean Metzger Pdf

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, economics, and race are interwoven and argues that close examination of particular forms of dress can help us think anew about gender and modernity.

Author : Jérôme Sans
Publisher : Blue Kingfisher
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : UCSD:31822036425585

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China Talks by Jérôme Sans Pdf

Text by Jerome Sans.

Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439106495

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Wild Swans by Jung Chang Pdf

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Asian Americans
ISBN : UCSD:31822041737305

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Amerasia Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Current events
ISBN : UCD:31175002236399

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Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ruo-Wang Bao,Rudolph Chelminski
Publisher : Penguin Adult HC/TR
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Forced labor
ISBN : UCAL:B4319480

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Prisoner of Mao by Ruo-Wang Bao,Rudolph Chelminski Pdf