The Beautiful Generation : Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion /

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"The Beautiful Generation is a pleasure to read and a model of how cultural studies ought to be done. Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu's elegant, well-crafted account of the fashion industry demonstrates the impossibility of separating the aesthetic from the material, or the cultural from the economic....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tu, Thuy Linh N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Fashion > Social aspects.
Fashion > Economic aspects.
Asian American fashion designers.
Fashion > Economic aspects > United States.
Fashion > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fashion, free trade, and the "rise of the Asian designer
  • Crossing the assembly line : skills, knowledge, and the borders of fashion
  • All in the family? : kin, gifts, and the networks of fashion
  • The cultural economy of Asian chic
  • "Material Mao" : fashioning histories out of icons
  • Asia on my mind : transnational intimacies and cultural genealogies.

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