Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia

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This edited volume on radical dress reforms in East Asia takes a fresh look at the symbols and languages of modernity in dress and body. Dress reform movements around the turn of the twentieth century in the region have received little critical attention as a multicultural discourse of labor, body, gender identity, colonialism, and government authority. With contributions by leading experts of costume/textile history of China, Korea, and Japan, this book presents up-to-date scholarship using diverse methodologies in costume history, history of consumption, and international trade. Thematically organized into sections exploring the garments and uniforms, accessories, fabrics, and fashion styles of Asia, this edited volume offers case studies for students and scholars in an ever-expanding field of material culture including, but not limited to, economic history, visual culture, art history, history of journalism, and popular culture. Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia stimulates further research on the impact of modernity and imperialism in neglected areas such as military uniform, school uniform, women’s accessories, hairstyles, and textile trade. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii Introduction (Kyunghee Pyun, Aida Yuen Wong)....Pages 1-19 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Dressing Up During the Meiji Restoration: A Perspective on Fukusei (Clothing Reform) (Yoshinori Osakabe)....Pages 23-45 Dress Policy and Western-Style Court Attire in Modern Korea (Kyungmee Lee)....Pages 47-68 Monarchist Ambition in China’s New Republic: Illustrated Manual of Dress for Ritual Sacrifice for Yuan Shikai’s Presidency (Aida Yuen Wong)....Pages 69-89 School Uniform Reforms in Modern Japan (Tomoko Namba)....Pages 91-113 A Spectacle of Authority on the Streets: Police Uniforms in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea (Michiyo Nomura)....Pages 115-139 Front Matter ....Pages 141-141 Gendered Differences in Modern Korea Toward Western Luxuries (Kyeongmi Joo)....Pages 143-166 Affecting Grandiosity: Manchuness and the Liangbatou Hairdo-Turned-Headpiece Circa 1870s–1930s (Gary Wang)....Pages 167-192 The Lady’s Fan: Fashion Accessories and Modern Femininity in Republican China (Mei Mei Rado)....Pages 193-227 Front Matter ....Pages 229-229 Fashioning the Foreign: Using British Woolens in Nineteenth-Century China (Rachel Silberstein)....Pages 231-258 Woolen Cloths and the Boom of Fancy Kimono: Worsted Muslin and the Development of “Kawaii” Designs in Japan (Seiko Sugimoto)....Pages 259-284 Hybrid Dandyism: European Woolen Fabric in East Asia (Kyunghee Pyun)....Pages 285-306 Front Matter ....Pages 307-307 Monks in Modern Dress: The Dilemma of Being Japanese and Asian (Brij Tankha)....Pages 309-337 Style as Identity: Fashion in Taiwan in the Early Twentieth Century (Chun-mei Sun)....Pages 339-356 Clothes Make the Woman: Cheongsam and Chinese Identity in Hong Kong (Sandy Ng)....Pages 357-378 Back Matter ....Pages 379-414