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.