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Author Finnane, Antonia.

Title Changing clothes in China : fashion, history, nation / Antonia Finnane.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  391.00951 F497c 2008    ---  Available
Description xvii, 359 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-342) and index.
Contents Introduction: Fashion, history, nation -- Ways of seeing -- Fashions in late imperial China -- Soldiers and citizens -- The fashion industry in Shanghai -- Qipao China -- Her brother's clothes -- The new look in the new China -- Dressed to kill in the Cultural Revolution -- Breaking with the past -- Conclusion: Fashion, history, time.
Subject Clothing and dress -- China -- History.
Fashion -- China -- History.
China -- Social life and customs.
ISBN 9780231143509 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231143508 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231512732 (ebook)
0231512732 (ebook)

 
    
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