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.
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Much has been written about the transformation of China from being a clothing-manufacturing site to a fast-rate fashion consuming society.
Introduction Multiple Chinas
Wessie Ling & Simone Segre-Reinach
Section 1 PRC Chinese Fashion Industry
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 Shanghais Fashion Industries
- Xin Gu
Section 2 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
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Anne Pierson-Smith
7. Hybrid Fashion: A Study of Singapores Cosmopolitan Identity from the
1950s to the Present
May Khuen Chung
Section 3 Chinese Fashion and the West
8. Romeo Gigli Reborn in China? - Simona Segre-Reinach
9. Chinese Fashion Designers Becoming International -
Hazel Clark
Bibliography
Index
Wessie Ling is Professor of Transcultural Art and Design at London Metropolitan University and the Director of the Research Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement (CREATURE). She was ASEAN Research Fellow at Mahidol University, Rita Bolland Fellow at Nationaal Museum van Wereculturen and inaugural Research Fellow at LASALLE College of the Arts. Author of Fusionable Cheongsam, she has written widely on fashion making of China. Her co-edited special journal issues include Modern Italy on Italianerie: Transculturality, Co-creation and Transforming Identities between Italy and Asia, and ZoneModa Journal on Global Fashion, and Fashion Theory, and The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture on Global China. She serves on the editorial board of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, Clothing Cultures, and ZoneModa Journal. She is the co-editor of the long running series, Studies in Design and Material Culture.
Simona Segre-Reinach is cultural anthropologist and associate professor of Fashion Studies at Bologna University. She has written on fashion from a global perspective in the books such as Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, The Fashion History Reader, Fashion Media: Past and Present, Biki. French Visions for Italian Fashion, and The Cambridge Global History of Fashion. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Fashion Theory, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Anthem Studies in Fashion, Dress Cultures and China Matters. She curated the fashion exhibitions 80's-90's Facing Beauties. Italian Fashion and Japanese Fashion at a Glance at Rimini Museum, Jungle: The Imagery of Animals in Fashion at Torino Venaria Reale and Rodrigo Pais Sguardi sulla moda at Bologna BUB.
