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OverviewFrom 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sean MetzgerPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.422kg ISBN: 9780253012562ISBN 10: 0253012562 Pages: 308 Publication Date: 25 April 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. The Queue 1. Charles Parsloe's Chinese Fetish 2. Screening Tails Part II. The Qipao 3. Anna May Wong and the Qipao's American Debut 4. Exoticus Eroticus, or the Silhouette of Suzie's Slits during the Cold War 5. Cut from Memory: Wong Kar-Wai's Fashionable Homage Part III. The Mao Suit 6. An Unsightly Vision 7. Uniform Beliefs? 8. Mao Fun Suits Epilogue: The Tuxedo Notes IndexReviewsA thoroughly researched, richly detailed study of the ways that items of clothing can both reveal and fashion cultural relationships. --SanSan Kwan, University of California, Berkeley--SanSan Kwan, University of California, Berkeley Author InformationSean Metzger is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. He is editor (with Olivia Khoo) of Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures and (with Gina Masequesmay) of Embodying Asian/American Sexualities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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