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- Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Indiana University Press
summary
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, economics, and race are interwoven and argues that close examination of particular forms of dress can help us think anew about gender and modernity.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-26
- Part 1 The Queue
- pp. 27-30
- 1 Charles Parsloe’s Chinese Fetish
- pp. 31-59
- 2 Screening Tails
- pp. 60-100
- Part 2 The Qipao
- pp. 101-108
- Part 3 The Mao Suit
- pp. 161-168
- 6 An Unsightly Vision
- pp. 169-192
- 7 Uniform Beliefs?
- pp. 193-219
- 8 Mao Fun Suits
- pp. 220-233
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253015686
Related ISBN(s)
9780253012470, 9780253012562
MARC Record
OCLC
892430093
Pages
308
Launched on MUSE
2014-11-27
Language
English
Open Access
No