Sara Liao

Fashioning China

Precarious Creativity and Women Designers in Shanzhai Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of women creating fake fashion in China - and how it affects the economy, labour, creativity and culture.

Produktdetails

• Digital Barricades
• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780745340708
• ISBN-10: 0745340709
• Artikelnr.: 58341662

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Series preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Fashion Work, Precarious Labor, and Women Designers in
Shanzhai Culture
2. Shanzhai Fashion and Precarious Creativity in China
3. The Digital Labor and Production Culture of Shanzhai Fashion
4. The Shanzhai of Shanzhai: The Politics of Copying and Creativity
5. Shanzhai Dreams and the Chinese Dream
6. Shanzhai Culture, National Ideologies, and Transnational Capitalism: A
Double-edged Sword
Appendix: Demographics of Informants
Notes
Bibliography
Index