Wessie Ling is Professor of Transcultural Art and Design at London Metropolitan University and the Director of the Research Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement (CREATURE). She was ASEAN Research Fellow at Mahidol University, Rita Bolland Fellow at Nationaal Museum van Wereculturen and inaugural Research Fellow at LASALLE College of the Arts. Author of Fusionable Cheongsam, she has written widely on fashion making of China. Her co-edited special journal issues include Modern Italy on ‘Italianerie: Transculturality, Co-creation and Transforming Identities between Italy and Asia’, and ZoneModa Journal on ‘Global Fashion, and Fashion Theory’, and The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture on ‘Global China’. She serves on the editorial board of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, Clothing Cultures, and ZoneModa Journal. She is the co-editor of the long running series, Studies in Design and Material Culture.Simona Segre-Reinach is cultural anthropologist and associate professor of Fashion Studies at Bologna University. She has written on fashion from a global perspective in the books such as Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, The Fashion History Reader, Fashion Media: Past and Present, Biki. French Visions for Italian Fashion, and The Cambridge Global History of Fashion. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Fashion Theory, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Anthem Studies in Fashion, Dress Cultures and China Matters. She curated the fashion exhibitions ‘80's-90's Facing Beauties. Italian Fashion and Japanese Fashion at a Glance’ at Rimini Museum, ‘Jungle: The Imagery of Animals in Fashion’ at Torino Venaria Reale and ‘Rodrigo Pais Sguardi sulla moda’ at Bologna BUB.

• Introduction: Multiple Chinas - Wessie Ling & Simone Segre ReinachSection I: PRC Chinese Fashion Industry1. Textiles and Apparel in the Mao years: Uniformity, Variety, and the Limits of Autarchy - Antonia Finnane & Peidong Sun2.Local Productions, Global Connections: Making Fashion in China - Jianhau Zhao3.Designed in China: Multiple Approaches to Fashion and Retail - Juanjuan Wu, Yue Hu, Lei Xu & Marilyn R. Delong4.‘Creative Economy’ in China: A Case Study of Shanghai’s Fashion Industries - Xin GuSection II: Fashion in other Chinas5.Does Fashion Identity Matter? The Cases of Hong Kong and Taiwan – Wessie Ling6.Multiple Cosplay: Raiding the Dressing Up Box across Hong Kong and China - Anne Pierson-Smith7.Hybrid Fashion: A Study of Singapore’s Cosmopolitan Identity from the 1950s to the Present - May Khuen Chung Section III: Chinese Fashion and the West8.Romeo Gigli Reborn in China? - Simona Segre Reinach9.Chinese Fashion Designers: Becoming International - Hazel ClarkBibliographyIndex