Fashion in Multiple Chinas

Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape

Wessie Ling editor Simona Segre-Reinach editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:7th Jan '20

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Fashion in Multiple Chinas cover

Much has been written about the transformation of China from being a clothing-manufacturing site to a fast-rate fashion consuming society. Less, however, has been written on the process of making Chinese fashion. The expert contributors to Fashion in Multiple Chinas explore how the many Chinese fashions operate across the widespread, fragmented and diffused, Chinese diaspora. They confront the idea of Chinese nationalism as `one nation', as well as of China as a single reality, in 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. They 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.

ISBN: 9781350150690

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 488g

288 pages