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A Fashionable Century - Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing (Hardcover)
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A Fashionable Century - Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing (Hardcover)
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Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much
about women's participation in the commercialization of textile
handicrafts and the flourishing of urban popular culture. Focusing
on women's work and fashion, A Fashionable Century presents an
array of visually compelling clothing and accessories neglected by
traditional histories of Chinese dress, examining these products'
potential to illuminate issues of gender and identity. In the late
Qing, the expansion of production systems and market economies
transformed the Chinese fashion system, widening access to
fashionable techniques, materials, and imagery. Challenging the
conventional production model, in which women embroidered items at
home, Silberstein sets fashion within a process of
commercialization that created networks of urban guilds, commercial
workshops, and subcontracted female workers. These networks gave
rise to new trends influenced by performance and prints, and they
offered women opportunities to participate in fashion and
contribute to local economies and cultures. Rachel Silberstein
draws on vernacular and commercial sources, rather than on the
official and imperial texts prevalent in Chinese dress history, to
demonstrate that in these fascinating objects-regulated by market
desires, rather than imperial edict-fashion formed at the
intersection of commerce and culture. A Fashionable Century is the
winner of the Costume Society of America's Millia Davenport
Publication Award and was long-listed for the Textile Society of
America's R. L. Shep Award. The judges described the book as "an
extraordinary achievement in scholarship working with source
materials that are little-known outside of China and not otherwise
available in English."
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