Antonia Finnane

How to Make a Mao Suit (eBook, ePUB)

Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949-1976

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, new clothing protocols for state employees resulted in far-reaching changes in what people wore. In a pioneering history of dress in the Mao years (1949-1976), Antonia Finnane traces the transformation, using industry archives and personal stories to reveal a clothing regime pivoted on the so-called 'Mao suit'. The time of the Mao suit was the time of sewing schools and sewing machines, pattern books and homemade clothes. It was also a time of close economic planning, when rationing meant a limited range of clothes made, usually by women, from limited amounts of cloth. In an area of scholarship dominated by attention to consumption, Finnane presents a revisionist account focused instead on production. How to Make a Mao Suit provides a richly illustrated account of clothing that links the material culture of the Mao years to broader cultural and technological changes of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009359986
• Artikelnr.: 70910428

Autorenporträt

Antonia Finnane is honorary professorial fellow in history at the University of Melbourne. She is internationally known for her work on the history of dress and fashion in modern China.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of maps
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Technical notes
Introduction
1. The Red Group tailors and the Zhongshan suit
2. Notions and sewing tools
3. Making zhifu
4. Sewing like a girl
5. Rationing
6. The time of the sewing machine
7. Pattern books I: origins, authors, readers
8. Pattern books II: how to take a measurement
9. What should Chinese women wear?
Conclusion
Appendices
Glossary
References
Index.