A fashionable century : textile artistry and commerce in the late Qing

A fashionable century : textile artistry and commerce in the late Qing / Rachel Silberstein.

"Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much about women's participation-as both consumers and producers-in the commercialization of textile handicrafts and the flourishing of urban popular culture in the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911). The potential of clothing and t...

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Main Author: Silberstein, Rachel, 1977- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Textile design > China > History > 19th century.
Textile industry > China > History > 19th century.
Fashion > Social aspects > China > History > 19th century.
Women textile workers > China > History > 19th century.
Women artisans > China > History > 19th century.
1800-1899.
Fashion > Social aspects
Textile design
Textile industry
Women artisans
Women textile workers
Travailleuses > Chine > 19e siecle.
Industries textiles > Personnel > Chine > 19e siecle.
Mode > Aspect social > Chine > 19e siecle.
Industries textiles > Chine > 19e siecle.
Textiles et tissus > Design > Chine > 19e siecle.
China
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: In the museum
  • Terms, abbreviations, and chronology
  • Introduction: Fashion and Chinese history
  • PART ONE. CREATING FASHION THROUGH THE DYNASTY: IMAGERY, DISCOURSE, PRODUCTION. 1. Visualizing fashion: ethnicity, place, and transmission
  • 2. "Outlandish costume and strange hats": moral discourses of fashion
  • 3. Workshop, boudoir, village: producing embroidered dress-- PART TWO. PLAYS AND POEMS: FASHIONING NINETEENTH-CENTURY DECORATION. 4. Performance, print, and pattern: popular culture in fashion
  • 5. "The Luxury of words": fashion authorities and aspirations
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix1. A complete record of one hundred blessings and one thousand fortunes: a dowry list for Yu Qingceng, a Zhejiang gentlewoman in the late Qing
  • Appendix 2. Clothing, textile, and accessory shop names in mid-Qing Suzhou
  • Appendix 3. Commercial embroidery price list from the end of the Qing dynasty
  • Appendix 4. Qing dynasty commercial clothing, accessory, and embroidery guilds
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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