Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation
Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation by Antonia Finnane
English | January 24, 2008 | ISBN: 0231143508 | 360 pages | PDF | 26 MB
English | January 24, 2008 | ISBN: 0231143508 | 360 pages | PDF | 26 MB
Based largely on nineteenth and twentieth-century representations of Chinese dress as traditional and unchanging, historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. But in this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane proves that vibrant fashions were a vital part of Chinese life in the late imperial era, when well-to-do men and women showed a keen awareness of what was up-to-date.