Author: John Vollmer
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
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Clothed to Rule the Universe
Author: John Vollmer
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Mayer Thurman."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Mayer Thurman."--BOOK JACKET.
The Visible Self
Author: Joanne B. Eicher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1609018702
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This anthropological investigation of dress featuring selected scholarly readings is ideal for courses focused on global perspectives and cultural aspects of dress.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1609018702
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This anthropological investigation of dress featuring selected scholarly readings is ideal for courses focused on global perspectives and cultural aspects of dress.
A Fashionable Century
Author: Rachel Silberstein
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295747196
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Honorable Mention for the 2023 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies An innovative look at late-Qing cultural and fashion history Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much about women’s participation in the commercialization of textile handicrafts and the flourishing of urban popular culture. Focusing on women’s work and fashion, A Fashionable Century presents an array of visually compelling clothing and accessories neglected by traditional histories of Chinese dress, examining these products’ potential to illuminate issues of gender and identity. In the late Qing, the expansion of production systems and market economies transformed the Chinese fashion system, widening access to fashionable techniques, materials, and imagery. Challenging the conventional production model, in which women embroidered items at home, Silberstein sets fashion within a process of commercialization that created networks of urban guilds, commercial workshops, and subcontracted female workers. These networks gave rise to new trends influenced by performance and prints, and they offered women opportunities to participate in fashion and contribute to local economies and cultures. Rachel Silberstein draws on vernacular and commercial sources, rather than on the official and imperial texts prevalent in Chinese dress history, to demonstrate that in these fascinating objects—regulated by market desires, rather than imperial edict—fashion formed at the intersection of commerce and culture. A Fashionable Century is the winner of the Costume Society of America's Millia Davenport Publication Award and was long-listed for the Textile Society of America's R. L. Shep Award. The judges described the book as "an extraordinary achievement in scholarship working with source materials that are little-known outside of China and not otherwise available in English."
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295747196
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Honorable Mention for the 2023 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies An innovative look at late-Qing cultural and fashion history Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much about women’s participation in the commercialization of textile handicrafts and the flourishing of urban popular culture. Focusing on women’s work and fashion, A Fashionable Century presents an array of visually compelling clothing and accessories neglected by traditional histories of Chinese dress, examining these products’ potential to illuminate issues of gender and identity. In the late Qing, the expansion of production systems and market economies transformed the Chinese fashion system, widening access to fashionable techniques, materials, and imagery. Challenging the conventional production model, in which women embroidered items at home, Silberstein sets fashion within a process of commercialization that created networks of urban guilds, commercial workshops, and subcontracted female workers. These networks gave rise to new trends influenced by performance and prints, and they offered women opportunities to participate in fashion and contribute to local economies and cultures. Rachel Silberstein draws on vernacular and commercial sources, rather than on the official and imperial texts prevalent in Chinese dress history, to demonstrate that in these fascinating objects—regulated by market desires, rather than imperial edict—fashion formed at the intersection of commerce and culture. A Fashionable Century is the winner of the Costume Society of America's Millia Davenport Publication Award and was long-listed for the Textile Society of America's R. L. Shep Award. The judges described the book as "an extraordinary achievement in scholarship working with source materials that are little-known outside of China and not otherwise available in English."
Chinese Art
Author: Patricia Bjaaland Welch
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462906893
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
With over 630 striking color photos and illustrations, this Chinese art guide focuses on the rich tapestry of symbolism which makes up the basis of traditional Chinese art. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery includes detailed commentary and historical background information for the images that continuously reappear in the arts of China, including specific plants and animals, religious beings, mortals and inanimate objects. The book thoroughly illuminates the origins, common usages and diverse applications of popular Chinese symbols in a tone that is both engaging and authoritative. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery is an essential reference for collectors, museum-goers, guides, students and anyone else with a serious interest in the culture and history of China.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462906893
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
With over 630 striking color photos and illustrations, this Chinese art guide focuses on the rich tapestry of symbolism which makes up the basis of traditional Chinese art. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery includes detailed commentary and historical background information for the images that continuously reappear in the arts of China, including specific plants and animals, religious beings, mortals and inanimate objects. The book thoroughly illuminates the origins, common usages and diverse applications of popular Chinese symbols in a tone that is both engaging and authoritative. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery is an essential reference for collectors, museum-goers, guides, students and anyone else with a serious interest in the culture and history of China.
The China Collectors
Author: Karl E. Meyer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137279761
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The untold and fascinating history of the unlikely artistic encounters between the US and China, the youngest and oldest of major powers
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137279761
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The untold and fascinating history of the unlikely artistic encounters between the US and China, the youngest and oldest of major powers
How They Rule the World
Author: Pedro Baños
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473563070
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
*The International Bestseller* Is there anything more cut-throat than global politics? Wherever you turn – Europe, Russia, China, Korea, Syria, the Middle East – we are living in a time of global geopolitical power plays. Once an insider to this closed world, Pedro Banos reveals that however it might be smoothed over by the PR of political diplomacy, the world of geopolitics is one of war and conflict by strategic means, where countries have sought dominion and power over their rivals since the dawn of time. Banos presents this high-stakes game as a series of 22 universal rules on how to act and exert influence in the international sphere. Each principle is contextualised in both classical and modern history, from Bismarck to Kissinger, but also related to the current world of Trump, Putin and Xi Jinping. With titles like ‘Kicking Away the Ladder’, ‘The Tower of Champagne Glasses’, ‘The Madman’, and ‘The Mule and the Saddlebags’, How They Rule the World is a practical set of rules for engagement that can be enjoyed by anyone. Written with the philosophic, aphoristic timelessness of a von Bulow, Sun Tzu or Machiavelli, Banos has created an utterly gripping manual on the secrets of how strategic power really works.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473563070
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
*The International Bestseller* Is there anything more cut-throat than global politics? Wherever you turn – Europe, Russia, China, Korea, Syria, the Middle East – we are living in a time of global geopolitical power plays. Once an insider to this closed world, Pedro Banos reveals that however it might be smoothed over by the PR of political diplomacy, the world of geopolitics is one of war and conflict by strategic means, where countries have sought dominion and power over their rivals since the dawn of time. Banos presents this high-stakes game as a series of 22 universal rules on how to act and exert influence in the international sphere. Each principle is contextualised in both classical and modern history, from Bismarck to Kissinger, but also related to the current world of Trump, Putin and Xi Jinping. With titles like ‘Kicking Away the Ladder’, ‘The Tower of Champagne Glasses’, ‘The Madman’, and ‘The Mule and the Saddlebags’, How They Rule the World is a practical set of rules for engagement that can be enjoyed by anyone. Written with the philosophic, aphoristic timelessness of a von Bulow, Sun Tzu or Machiavelli, Banos has created an utterly gripping manual on the secrets of how strategic power really works.
Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia
Author: Kyunghee Pyun
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319971999
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This edited volume on radical dress reforms in East Asia takes a fresh look at the symbols and languages of modernity in dress and body. Dress reform movements around the turn of the twentieth century in the region have received little critical attention as a multicultural discourse of labor, body, gender identity, colonialism, and government authority. With contributions by leading experts of costume/textile history of China, Korea, and Japan, this book presents up-to-date scholarship using diverse methodologies in costume history, history of consumption, and international trade. Thematically organized into sections exploring the garments and uniforms, accessories, fabrics, and fashion styles of Asia, this edited volume offers case studies for students and scholars in an ever-expanding field of material culture including, but not limited to, economic history, visual culture, art history, history of journalism, and popular culture. Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia stimulates further research on the impact of modernity and imperialism in neglected areas such as military uniform, school uniform, women’s accessories, hairstyles, and textile trade.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319971999
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This edited volume on radical dress reforms in East Asia takes a fresh look at the symbols and languages of modernity in dress and body. Dress reform movements around the turn of the twentieth century in the region have received little critical attention as a multicultural discourse of labor, body, gender identity, colonialism, and government authority. With contributions by leading experts of costume/textile history of China, Korea, and Japan, this book presents up-to-date scholarship using diverse methodologies in costume history, history of consumption, and international trade. Thematically organized into sections exploring the garments and uniforms, accessories, fabrics, and fashion styles of Asia, this edited volume offers case studies for students and scholars in an ever-expanding field of material culture including, but not limited to, economic history, visual culture, art history, history of journalism, and popular culture. Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia stimulates further research on the impact of modernity and imperialism in neglected areas such as military uniform, school uniform, women’s accessories, hairstyles, and textile trade.
Five Colours of the Universe
Author: John Vollmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Newsletter, East Asian Art and Archaeology
Author:
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Art, East Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Art, East Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Empire's New Clothes
Author: J. Paltiel
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230605125
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book assesses the challenge to the dominance of Euro-American political and economic liberalism from China's emergence as a global presence. China presents the most significant present-day example of the dual process of participation and resistance. Paltiel's offers intriguing insights into the prospect of equality in a system of global power.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230605125
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book assesses the challenge to the dominance of Euro-American political and economic liberalism from China's emergence as a global presence. China presents the most significant present-day example of the dual process of participation and resistance. Paltiel's offers intriguing insights into the prospect of equality in a system of global power.