Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia

S. Heijin Lee (Editor) S. Heijin Lee is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Lee is co-editor of Other Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea (2018) and the forthcoming The Geopolitics of Beauty: Transnational Circulations of Plastic Surgery, Pop and Pleasure.S. Heijin Lee is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Lee is co-editor of Other Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea (2018) and the forthcoming The Geopolitics of Beauty: Transnational Circulations of Plastic Surgery, Pop and Pleasure.Christina H. Moon (Editor) Christina H. Moon is Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies in the School of Art and Design History at the Parsons School of Design. She is a Social Science Research Council Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellow and a fellow of the Graduate Institute of Design Ethnography Social Theory at The New School.Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (Editor) Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. She is the author of The Beautiful Generation; Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion (2011) and of the forthcoming Experiments in Skin: Making Race and Beauty Across the Pacific.

As Asia becomes increasingly central to the global fashion system, books like Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia become ever more important. - Dr. Valerie Steele, Director, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia is razor sharp in its framework and rigorous in its analysis. Eschewing tropes about the Asian continent and its oblique relationship to Western industries, the book maps new transnational circuits of exchange and offers readers fresh language to explain modernity, geopolitics, economics, and global taste cultures. It is so refreshing to read scholarship that takes fashion and beauty seriously. - Tanisha C. Ford, author of Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion