Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation

by Antonia Finnane

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.

Though foreigners who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231143508
• ISBN13: 9780231143509
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.2" x 6.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher