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Wearing the Cheongsam - Dress and Culture in a Chinese Diaspora (Paperback)
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Wearing the Cheongsam - Dress and Culture in a Chinese Diaspora (Paperback)
Series: Dress Cultures
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Associations between the cheongsam dress and Chinese cultural
identity are well known but what are the meanings of the cheongsam
for members of the Chinese diaspora? In a study grounded in
first-hand accounts of wearing, Cheryl Sim explores the practices
and experiences of women in Canada, a major Chinese diaspora, and
carries out the first in-depth study of the cheongsam from this
critical point of view. Questions explored over the course of 20
interviews, as well as during personal reflections on the author's
own experiences of wearing, include: is there a desire to re-claim
or appropriate the cheongsam? Does this desire risk perpetuating
stereotypes of Asian women? Does it undermine one's identification
with one's host country? Can erased heritage(s) be accessed through
dress? And how does wearing the cheongsam interact with the male
gaze? Revealing feelings of repulsion and attraction, Sim combines
personal stories with an authoritative use of theoretical
frameworks such as feminism, post-colonialism and autoethnography.
Covering issues such as heritage, ethnic identity, authenticity,
nationalism, patriarchy and assimilation, Sim demonstrates that the
meanings of the cheongsam are multifarious. Readable but with
strong academic underpinnings, this book is the entry point into
discussions of Chinese dress and diaspora.
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