Fashion, identity, and power in modern Asia. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kyunghee Pyun, Aida Yuen Wong.
• Editors: Pyun, Kyunghee; Wong, Aida Yuen, 1968-
• Contents: 1. Introduction (Kyunghee Pyun and Aida Yuen Wong) Part 1. Garments and Uniforms 2. Dressing Up During the Meiji Restoration: A Perspective on Fukusei (Clothing Reform) (Yoshinori Osakabe) 3. Dress Policy and Western-Style Court Attire in Modern Korea (Kyungmee Lee) 4. Monarchist Ambition in China's New Republic:Illustrated Manual of Dress for Ritual Sacrificefor Yuan Shikai's Presidency (Aida Yuen Wong) 5. School Uniform Reforms in Modern Japan (Tomoko Namba) 6. A Spectacle of Authority on the Streets: Police Uniforms in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea (Michiyo Nomura) Part 2. Accessories 7. Gendered Differences in Modern Korea Towards Western Luxuries (Kyeongmi Joo) 8. Affecting Grandiosity: Manchuness and the Liangbatou Hairdo-turned-Headpiece Circa 1870s to 1930s (Gary Wang) 9. The Lady's Fan: Fashion Accessories and Modern Femininity in Republican China (Mei Mei Rado) Part 3. Fabrics 10. Fashioning the Foreign: Using English Woolens in Nineteenth-Century China (Rachel Silberstein) 11. Woolen Cloths and the Boom of Fancy Kimono: Worsted Muslin and the Development of 'Kawaii' Designs in Japan (Seiko Sugimoto) 12. Hybrid Dandyism: European Woolen Fabric in East Asia (Kyunghee Pyun) Part 4. Fashion Styles 13. Monks in Modern Dress: The Dilemma of Being Japanese and Asian (Brij Tankha) 14. Style as Identity: Fashion in Taiwan in the Early Twentieth Century (Chun-mei Sun) 15. Clothes Make the Woman: Cheongsam and Chinese Identity in Hong Kong (Sandy Ng).
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 391.0095; Clothing and dress -- Asia; Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Asia; Fashion -- Asia; Ethnicity -- Asia; Asia -- Civilization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319971995
• Related ISBNs: 9783319971988
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