Abstract
This chapter examines how the Qipao was employed in order to resist and negotiate with institutional repression in the Republican era through the study of Linglong, a popular women's magazine in 1930s China. Chinese women's attitudes towards Western-style fashion and aesthetic judgment, mediated through resistance and negotiation, is unveiled and analysed whereby the conceptual ideas of harmony and concealment in Chinese clothes had become apparent.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Material women, 1750-1950: consuming desires and collecting practices |
| Editors | Maureen Daly Goggin, Beth Fowkes Tobin |
| Place of Publication | Farnham |
| Publisher | Ashgate |
| Pages | 209-225 |
| Number of pages | 404 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-7546-6539-7 |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2009 |
Keywords
- fashion