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1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations (some color), map

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Book collections on Project MUSE.

Contents

History : cloth and the logics of cosmopolitan empire -- Discourse : fashion and sumptuary regulation -- Style : fashioning the Tang beauty -- Design : silk and the logics of fashion -- Desire : men of style and the metrics of fashion

Summary

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

Note

Description based on print version record.

Subject

Seidenindustrie

Mode

Kleidung

HISTORY / Asia / China

HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming

Tang Dynasty (China) (OCoLC)fst01696781

Silk industry. (OCoLC)fst01118746

Silk. (OCoLC)fst01118724

Fashion. (OCoLC)fst00921600

Clothing and dress. (OCoLC)fst00864680

Silk industry -- China -- History -- To 1500.

Silk -- China -- History -- To 1500.

Fashion -- China -- History -- To 1500.

Clothing and dress -- China -- History -- To 1500.

China.

China. (OCoLC)fst01206073

China -- History -- Tang dynasty, 618-907.

Genre/Form

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Electronic books.

Added Author

Project Muse. distributor

ISBN

9780295745305

9780295745312

0295745312