Embodying beauty, desiring the world: dress and fashion in the 1980s' China.
This article studies the popular fashion and everyday dress culture of the 1980s, China's transitional period from planned economy to market economy. Drawing from film representations, fashion magazines, and media reports, I treat popular fashion as the meeting place of individual desire and social...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 185 - 203 |
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Jun2022
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