Chinese Looks : Fashion, Performance, Race / Sean Metzger.

By:

Metzger, Sean, 1973- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780253015686
0253015685

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chinese looks.DDC classification:

746.920951

LOC classification:

TT504.6.C5 .C384 2014

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 THE QUEUE; 1 Charles Parsloe's Chinese Fetish; 2 Screening Tails; PART 2 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 3 THE MAO SUIT; 6 An Unsightly Vision; 7 Uniform Beliefs?; 8 Mao Fun Suits; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

Summary: From 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, econom.

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From 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, econom.