About face : performing race in fashion and theater / by Dorinne Kondo

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index.

The politics of pleasure -- M. Butterfly: gender, orientalism, and a critique of essentialist identity -- Orientalizing: fashioning Japan -- The limits of the avant-garde?: gender and race on the runway -- Fabricating masculinity: gender, race, and nation in the transnational circuit -- The narrative production of home in Asian American Theater -- Interview with David Henry Hwang -- Art, activism, Asia, Asian Americans.

Changing clothes in China : fashion, history, nation / Antonia Finnane.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-342) and index.
Introduction: Fashion, history, nation -- Ways of seeing -- Fashions in late imperial China -- Soldiers and citizens -- The fashion industry in Shanghai -- Qipao China -- Her brother's clothes -- The new look in the new China -- Dressed to kill in the Cultural Revolution -- Breaking with the past -- Conclusion: Fashion, history, time.

The empire's new cloth : cross-cultural textiles at the Qing court / Mei Mei Rado

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-184) and index.

Introduction. Cross-cultural textiles and the Qing empire -- 1. Foreign splendor: European silks at the Qing court -- 2. "For his majesty's use": Western silks and Manchu rulership -- 3. Encoding global aspirations: European tapestries for the Qing emperor -- 4. Staging imperial narratives: the Qing Western tapestries -- Textile terminology and measurement systems -- Chinese glossary.

"A groundbreaking study of textiles as transcultural objects in the Qing court that provides a new understanding of the interconnectedness of the early modern world. In the early modern period luxury textiles circulated globally as trade goods and diplomatic gifts, fostering cultural exchange between distant regions. By the eighteenth century, both China and Europe had developed a splendid tradition of silk and tapestry weaving. While the role of Chinese silk imports in Europe has been well studied, this book reconstructs the forgotten history of the eastward movement of European textiles to China and their integration into the arts and culture of the Qing Empire. The Empire's New Cloth explores how Qing court workshops adapted European textile designs and techniques and uncovers the specific uses and meanings of these textiles in imperial military ceremonies, religious spaces, and palace interiors. Through careful study of a wide range of previously unpublished objects, Mei Mei Rado illuminates how these cross-cultural textiles provided the visual and material means for the Qing ruler to convey political messages. By revealing how Qing imperial patrons and artisans responded and assigned meanings to European influences, this beautifully illustrated volume highlights the reciprocity in eighteenth-century Sino-European exchanges and centers textiles within the dynamic global flow of objects and ideas"-- Provided by publisher.