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Metzger Sean <1973-> |
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Chinese looks : fashion, performance, race / / Sean Metzger |
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Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fashion - China |
Fashion design - China |
Popular culture - China |
Chinese in motion pictures |
China Race relations |
China Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 THE QUEUE; 1 Charles Parsloe's Chinese Fetish; 2 Screening Tails; PART 2 THE QIPAO; 3 Anna May Wong and the Qipao's American Debut; 4 Exoticus Eroticus, or the Silhouette of Suzie's Slits during the Cold War; 5 Cut from Memory: Wong Kar-Wai's Fashionable Homage; PART 3 THE MAO SUIT; 6 An Unsightly Vision; 7 Uniform Beliefs?; 8 Mao Fun Suits; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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From yellow-face performance in the 19th century to Jackie Chan in the 21st, Chinese Looks examines articles of clothing and modes of adornment as a window on how American views of China have changed in the past 150 years. Sean Metzger provides a cultural history of three iconic objects in theatrical and cinematic performance: the queue, or man''s hair braid; the woman''s suit known as the qipao; and the Mao suit. Each object emerges at a pivotal moment in US-China relations, indexing shifts in the balance of power between the two nations. Metzger shows how aesthetics, gender, politics, econom |
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