Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia

Kyunghee Pyun is Assistant Professor of History of Art at Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, USA.Aida Yuen Wong is Nathan Cummings and Robert B. and Beatrice C. Mayer Professor in Fine Arts at Brandeis University, USA.

• 1. Introduction (Kyunghee Pyun and Aida Yuen Wong).- 2. Dressing Up During the Meiji Restoration: A Perspective on Fukusei (Clothing Reform) (Yoshinori Osakabe).- 3. Dress Policy and Western-Style Court Attire in Modern Korea (Kyungmee Lee).- 4. Monarchist Ambition in China’s New Republic: Illustrated Manual of Dress for Ritual Sacrifice for Yuan Shikai's Presidency (Aida Yuen Wong).- 5. School Uniform Reforms in Modern Japan (Tomoko Namba).- 6. A Spectacle of Authority on the Streets: Police Uniforms in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea (Michiyo Nomura).- 7. Gendered Differences in Modern Korea Towards Western Luxuries (Kyeongmi Joo).- 8. Affecting Grandiosity: Manchuness and the Liangbatou Hairdo-turned-Headpiece Circa 1870s to 1930s (Gary Wang).- 9. The Lady’s Fan: Fashion Accessories and Modern Femininity in Republican China (Mei Mei Rado).- 10. Fashioning the Foreign: Using English Woolens in Nineteenth-Century China (Rachel Silberstein).- 11. Woolen Cloths and the Boom of Fancy Kimono: Worsted Muslin and the Development of “Kawaii” Designs in Japan (Seiko Sugimoto).- 12. Hybrid Dandyism: European Woolen Fabric in East Asia (Kyunghee Pyun).- 13. Monks in Modern Dress: The Dilemma of Being Japanese and Asian (Brij Tankha).- 14. Style as Identity: Fashion in Taiwan in the Early Twentieth Century (Chun-mei Sun).- 15. Clothes Make the Woman: Cheongsam and Chinese Identity in Hong Kong (Sandy Ng).

“This book, in varying ways, treat the intersection of Western clothing, accessories, hair fashions, and fabrics with existing local versions of those aspects of dress and representation of the body. … this is a very fine book. Its focus on fashion helps to modify the grand narrative of modern East Asian history.” (Barbara Molony, Asia Pacific Perspectives, Vol. 16 (1), 2019)