Changing Clothes In China

Columbia University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

UNSW Press, Sydney 2007. 24.0 x 16.0cms, 360pp, b/w, duotone & colour illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: ways of seeing; fashions in late Imperial China; soldiers & citizens; the fashion industry in Shanghai; qipao China;the brother's clothes; the New Look in the new China; dressed to kill in the cultural revolution; breaking with the… Read more about this item

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. 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… Read more about this item

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

2023. Paperback. New.