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Informationen zum Autor Wessie Ling is Professor of Transcultural Arts and Design at London Metropolitan University and a practising visual artist. Simona Segre Reinach is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies, Bologna University, Italy. She has written extensively on fashion from a global perspective. She is a member of various advisory editorial boards including for Fashion Theory , Critical Studies of Fashion and Beauty and Bloomsbury Fashion Central. Klappentext The transformation of China from a major site for clothing manufacture to an intensely fashion consuming society has been widely documented. Less has been written about the making of Chinese fashion. In Fashion in Multiple Chinas, expert authors explore how a multitude of Chinese fashions operate across the widespread, fragmented and diffused Chinese diaspora. They challenge the idea of Chinese nationalism as 'one nation', as well as of China as a single reality, revealing the realities of Chinese fashion as diverse and comprising multiple practices. They also demonstrate how the making of Chinese fashion is composed of numerous layers, often involving a web of global entanglements between manufacturing and circulation, retailing and branding. Chapters cover the mechanics of the PRC fashion industry, the creative economy of Chinese fashion, its retail and branding, and the cultural identity of Chinese fashion from the diasporas comprising the transglobal landscape of fashion production.Revealing the many iterations of Chinese fashion existing across the Chinese diaspora, this book examines complex and global processes behind the nation's fashionable output. Zusammenfassung The transformation of China from a major site for clothing manufacture to an intensely fashion consuming society has been widely documented. Less has been written about the making of Chinese fashion. In Fashion in Multiple Chinas! expert authors explore how a multitude of Chinese fashions operate across the widespread! fragmented and diffused Chinese diaspora. They challenge the idea of Chinese nationalism as 'one nation'! as well as of China as a single reality! revealing the realities of Chinese fashion as diverse and comprising multiple practices. They also demonstrate how the making of Chinese fashion is composed of numerous layers! often involving a web of global entanglements between manufacturing and circulation! retailing and branding. Chapters cover the mechanics of the PRC fashion industry! the creative economy of Chinese fashion! its retail and branding! and the cultural identity of Chinese fashion from the diasporas comprising the transglobal landscape of fashion production. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Multiple Chinas - Wessie Ling & Simone Segre Reinach Section I: PRC Chinese Fashion Industry 1. Textiles and Apparel in the Mao years: Uniformity, Variety, and the Limits of Autarchy - Antonia Finnane & Peidong Sun 2. Local Productions, Global Connections: Making Fashion in China - Jianhau Zhao 3. Designed in China: Multiple Approaches to Fashion and Retail - Juanjuan Wu, Yue Hu, Lei Xu & Marilyn R. Delong 4. ‘Creative Economy’ in China: A Case Study of Shanghai’s Fashion Industries - Xin Gu Section II: Fashion in other Chinas 5. Does Fashion Identity Matter? The Cases of Hong Kong and Taiwan – Wessie Ling 6. Multiple Cosplay: Raiding the Dressing Up Box across Hong Kong and China - Anne Pierson-Smith 7. Hybrid Fashion: A Study of Singapore’s Cosmopolitan Identity from the 1950s to the Present - May Khuen Chung Section III: Chinese Fashion and the West 8. Romeo Gigli Reborn in China? - Simona Segre Reinach 9. Chinese Fashion Designers: Becoming International - Hazel Clark Bibliography Index ...
