Empire of Style

Silk and Fashion in Tang China

BuYun Chen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2019
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-74530-5 (ISBN)

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Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang'an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regulations on dress to acquire majestic silks and au courant designs, as shifts in economic and social structures gave rise to what we now recognize as precursors of a modern fashion system: a new consciousness of time, a game of imitation and emulation, and a shift in modes of production.

This first book on fashion in premodern China is informed by archaeological sources—paintings, figurines, and silk artifacts—and textual records such as dynastic annals, poetry, tax documents, economic treatises, and sumptuary laws. Tang fashion is shown to have flourished in response to a confluence of social, economic, and political changes that brought innovative weavers and chic court elites to the forefront of history.

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BuYun Chen is assistant professor of history at Swarthmore College.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.06.2019
Reihe/Serie	Empire of Style
Zusatzinfo	96 color illus., 23 b&w illus., 3 tables
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	998 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-295-74530-4 / 0295745304
ISBN-13	978-0-295-74530-5 / 9780295745305
Zustand	Neuware