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A fashionable century : textile artistry and commerce in the late Qing /

"Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much about women's participation-as both consumers and producers-in the commercialization of textile handicrafts and the flourishing of urban popular culture in the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911). The potential of clothing and t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Silberstein, Rachel, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface: In the museum
  • Terms, abbreviations, and chronology
  • Introduction: Fashion and Chinese history
  • PART ONE. CREATING FASHION THROUGH THE DYNASTY: IMAGERY, DISCOURSE, PRODUCTION. 1. Visualizing fashion: ethnicity, place, and transmission
  • 2. “Outlandish costume and strange hats”: moral discourses of fashion
  • 3. Workshop, boudoir, village: producing embroidered dress-- PART TWO. PLAYS AND POEMS: FASHIONING NINETEENTH-CENTURY DECORATION. 4. Performance, print, and pattern: popular culture in fashion
  • 5. “The Luxury of words”: fashion authorities and aspirations
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix1. A complete record of one hundred blessings and one thousand fortunes: a dowry list for Yu Qingceng, a Zhejiang gentlewoman in the late Qing
  • Appendix 2. Clothing, textile, and accessory shop names in mid-Qing Suzhou
  • Appendix 3. Commercial embroidery price list from the end of the Qing dynasty
  • Appendix 4. Qing dynasty commercial clothing, accessory, and embroidery guilds
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.