Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape
- Submitting institution
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London Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32.32
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd
- ISBN
- 9781784538644
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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2 - The Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape (edited by Wessie Ling and Simona Segre Reinach) is the first critical study on the process of fashion-making in/from/with China from post-Deng Xiaoping’s Open Door Policy to the present. This Design History Society Publication Awarded volume confronts the idea of Chinese nationalism as ‘one nation' and China as a single reality to reveal the realities of Chinese fashion as a web of global entanglements between manufacturing and circulation, retailing and branding. As the chief editor of this highly curated volume, I led its coordination from initial proposal stage to final submission. In the introductory chapter, I used China as a case to devise a study framework based on the intersection of common belief, time and space to articulate fashion-making in the 21st century. Together with my co-editor, we directed eleven contributors, all of which are the authority in Chinese fashion, advised to revise individual chapters (first and second drafts) prior to final amendment following the full manuscript’s blind review. My chapter used the translocal and transcultural interaction of Hong Kong to uncover a multitude of Chinese fashions operating across the widespread, fragmented and diffused Chinese diaspora. The framework study of the volume was disseminated in universities across the globe (Paris, New York, Venice, Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore, Bangkok, Taipei) and to the wider public in Hong Kong Commercial Press (May 2018), Fashion and Textile Museum (London, Nov 2018); M on the Bund (Shanghai, Jun 2019) and the Research Center for Material Culture (Leiden, Jan 2019). It has led curators at the National Museum of World Cultures to reconfigure the narrative of China resulting in recent acquisitions of dresses with Chinese-Surinamese and -Indonesian origins, which, have subsequently become part of the semi-permanent exhibition, Crossroads Rotterdam (from Aug 2020), at Wereldmuseum Rotterdam.
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- Non-English
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