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Book SynopsisFeng Jie is Professor at Hainan University of China. She is the co-author of
Art Aesthetics and Introduction of Art, and is a co-curator at Tate Exchange in Tate Modern; as well as the Director of the Neutral Institute.
Trade ReviewAn eloquent, expansive, theoretically complex and yet also highly entertaining examination of Chinese fashion … Through historical garments with contemporary forms like the qipao Feng eruditely traces larger socio-cultural shifts in China, particularly changing female identity and the complexities of contemporary Chinese womanhood. * Toby Slade, University of Technology Sydney, Australia *
Readers will love this study of fashion in China for its informed discussion of iconic developments in China’s modern dress history … Thoughtful in its approach, provocative in its hypotheses, it traverses the rocky terrain of politics and culture in an ‘altermodern’ China as the author searches for a space in which fashion-in-China might be viewed on its own terms. * Antonia Finnane, University of Melbourne, Australia *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Fashion and Complexity 2. Modern China 3. Uniform, Uniformities and Gender 4. Altermodern China 5. Brand Neutral Coda: Fashion Degree Zero References Index
