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" Chinese Looks : "
Sean Metzger.
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BL
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876910
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Metzger, Sean,1973-
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Chinese Looks : : Fashion, Performance, Race /\ Sean Metzger.
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Bloomington, IN :: Indiana University Press,, 2014.
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, ©2014
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1 online resource (316 pages)
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0253015685
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0253012473
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0253012562
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9780253012470
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9780253012562
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 THE QUEUE; 1 Charles Parsloe's Chinese Fetish; 2 Screening Tails; PART 2 THE QIPAO; 3 Anna May Wong and the Qipao's American Debut; 4 Exoticus Eroticus, or the Silhouette of Suzie's Slits during the Cold War; 5 Cut from Memory: Wong Kar-Wai's Fashionable Homage; PART 3 THE MAO SUIT; 6 An Unsightly Vision; 7 Uniform Beliefs?; 8 Mao Fun Suits; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
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From 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, econom.
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Chinese in motion pictures.
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Fashion design-- China.
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Fashion-- China.
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Popular culture-- China.
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Chinese in motion pictures.
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DESIGN-- Textile Costume.
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Fashion design.
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Fashion.
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Folkkultur.
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Manners and customs.
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Mode.
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Modedesign.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- History Criticism.
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Popular culture.
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Race relations.
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China.
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| Dewey Classification
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746.920951
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TT504.6.C5 .C384 2014
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