{"product_id":"chinese-looks-fashion-performance-race-hardback-9780253012470","title":"Chinese Looks; Fashion, Performance, Race (Hardback) 9780253012470","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChinese Looks\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFashion, Performance, Race\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSean Metzger (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253012470\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 April 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages, 35 b\u0026amp;w illus. - 35 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.594 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Metzger offers a rich and detailed study of Chinese fashion, calling it the 'Sino\/American interface' that marks political and cultural investments in America's views of China and Chinese Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e (New Books in Asian American Studies) \u003cp\u003eChinese Looks is a sophisticated and well-researched publication that sheds light on how our appearances are tools for expressing identity, culture, politics, and issues that cross these complex boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e (Costume) \u003cp\u003eCultivating both a careful examination of cinematic technique and a broad theoretical understanding of global cultural exchange, Metzger does an especially good job of putting the cultural industries of China and North America into conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Drama Review) \u003cp\u003eThis is an important work that should be of interest to scholars in the fields of theatre, performance, cinema, queer studies, art history, costume design, and visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e (Modern Drama) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA welcome addition to theatre and performance studies, film studies, Asian American studies, fashion theory, and gender and sexuality studies, \u003cem\u003eChinese Looks \u003c\/em\u003eis poised to provide entree into future conversations about China's continued rise in geopolitics, the next chapter in the Sino\/American interface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of American Drama and Theatre)\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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, economics, and race are interwoven and argues that close examination of particular forms of dress can help us think anew about gender and modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart I. The Queue \u003cbr\u003e1. Charles Parsloe's Chinese Fetish \u003cbr\u003e2. Screening Tails\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart II. The Qipao \u003cbr\u003e3. Anna May Wong and the Qipao's American Debut \u003cbr\u003e4. Exoticus Eroticus, or the Silhouette of Suzie's Slits during the Cold War \u003cbr\u003e5. Cut from Memory: Wong Kar-Wai's Fashionable Homage\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart III. The Mao Suit \u003cbr\u003e6. An Unsightly Vision \u003cbr\u003e7. Uniform Beliefs? \u003cbr\u003e8. Mao Fun Suits\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: The Tuxedo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523889721624,"sku":"9780253012470","price":53.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/chinese-looks-fashion-performance-race-hardback-9780253012470","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}