How to Make a Mao Suit

Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949-1976

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvAntonia Finnane,Antonia (University of Melbourne) Finnane

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When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, new clothing protocols for state employees resulted in far-reaching changes in what people wore. In a pioneering history of dress in the Mao years (1949-1976), Antonia Finnane traces the transformation, using industry archives and personal stories to reveal a clothing regime pivoted on the so-called 'Mao suit'. The time of the Mao suit was the time of sewing schools and sewing machines, pattern books and homemade clothes. It was also a time of close economic planning, when rationing meant a limited range of clothes made, usually by women, from limited amounts of cloth. In an area of scholarship dominated by attention to consumption, Finnane presents a revisionist account focused instead on production. How to Make a Mao Suit provides a richly illustrated account of clothing that links the material culture of the Mao years to broader cultural and technological changes of the twentieth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-08-03
Mått152 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt570 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
Antal sidor386
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009359993

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List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Technical notes; Introduction; 1. The Red Group tailors and the Zhongshan suit; 2. Notions and sewing tools; 3. Making zhifu; 4. Sewing like a girl; 5. Rationing; 6. The time of the sewing machine; 7. Pattern books I: origins, authors, readers; 8. Pattern books II: how to take a measurement; 9. What should Chinese women wear?; Conclusion; Appendices; Glossary; References; Index.

'Garments made and worn mirror wider societal priorities, possibilities, and constraints. Antonia Finnane brilliantly illuminates the complexity of the Maoist era, a time of seemingly simple and strict sartorial aims, revealed as much more. Finnane recasts our understanding with ground-breaking gender-rich scholarship, revealing the options and boundaries shaping twentieth-century Chinese life.' Beverley Lemire, University of Alberta