Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation

Antonia Finnane

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January, 2008
Cloth, 360 pages, 200 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-14350-9
$40.00

Acknowlegments

List of Illustrations

1. Introduction: Fashion, History, Nation

2. Ways of Seeing

3. Fashions in Late Imperial China

4. Soldiers and Citizens

5. The Fashion Industry in Shanghai

6. Qipao China

7. Her Brother’s Clothes

8. The New Look in the New China

9. Dressed to Kill in the Cultural Revolution

10. Breaking with the Past

11. Conclusion: Fashion, History, Time

List of Chinese Characters

Technical Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• East Asian Studies

About the Author

Antonia Finnane is reader in history in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She studied at Sydney University, the Beijing Language Institute, and Nanjing University before completing a Ph.D. in Chinese history at the Australian National University. She is the author of Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550-1850, which was awarded the 2006 Joseph Levenson Book Award for a work on pre-1900 China.

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