Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan's Bridal Industry

by Bonnie Adrian

Book Overview

With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV.

An absorbing consideration of contemporary bridal practices in Taiwan, Framing the Bride shows how the lavish photographs represent more than mere conspicuous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520238346
• ISBN13: 9780520238343
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"