Moving in China: Fashion, History, Nation
Product DescriptionBased is largely on the nineteenth and twentieth century representations of Chinese dress as traditional and unchanging, historians have viewed the long way, as something very Western. But surprisingly in this, lavishly illustrated book proves that Antonia Finnan lively fashion an integral part of Chinese life in the late imperial period, to do good to men and women showed a strong awareness of what up-to-date. Although foreigners who travel to China in the early decades of the twentieth century came away with the impression that Chinese dress was simple and monotonous, were the main features of modern fashion is beginning to emerge, especially in Shanghai. Men dressed in blue clothes, felt caps and leather shoes, girls began to be fitted jackets and narrow pants, dresses and homespun important machine-woven fabrics, often made in foreign countries. These innovations marked the beginning of a vestimentary far-reaching revolution that would transform the clothing culture in urban and rural China more than half of the next century. Through meticulous research is Finnan, we are able to see how the close-fitting jacket and high collar of the Revolution-1911 stated that the skirt and jacket-blouse of the May Fourth era, and the military style popular in the Cultural Revolution, the colorful , globalized wardrobe of today. It combines brilliant China’s modernization and global visibility of the changes in clothing and offers a vivid portrait of the complex, subtle, and sometimes contradictory ways the people of China have worn their nation on their backs.
Moving in China: Fashion, History, Nation