Chinese looks : fashion, performance, race / / Sean Metzger

• Autore: Metzger Sean <1973->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Disciplina: 746.9/20951
• Soggetto topico: Fashion - China; Fashion design - China; Popular culture - China; Chinese in motion pictures
• Soggetto geografico: China Race relations; China Social life and customs
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Chinese looks
• ISBN: 0-253-01568-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787039303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II