How to Make a Mao Suit : Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949–1976 Paperback / softback
by Antonia (University of Melbourne) Finnane
Part of the Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China series
Paperback / softback
Description
When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, new clothing protocols for state employees resulted in far-reaching changes in what people wore.
In a pioneering history of dress in the Mao years (1949–1976), Antonia Finnane traces the transformation, using industry archives and personal stories to reveal a clothing regime pivoted on the so-called 'Mao suit'.
The time of the Mao suit was the time of sewing schools and sewing machines, pattern books and homemade clothes.
It was also a time of close economic planning, when rationing meant a limited range of clothes made, usually by women, from limited amounts of cloth.
In an area of scholarship dominated by attention to consumption, Finnane presents a revisionist account focused instead on production.
How to Make a Mao Suit provides a richly illustrated account of clothing that links the material culture of the Mao years to broader cultural and technological changes of the twentieth century.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/08/2023
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- ISBN:9781009359993
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/08/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009359993
