How to Make a Mao Suit (eBook)

Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949-1976

Antonia Finnane (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-35998-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.7.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-009-35998-3 / 1009359983
• ISBN-13: 978-1-009-35998-6 / 9781009359986