Empire of style : silk and fashion in Tang China

Author:

Chen, Buyun

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019] and ©2019

Subject:

Clothing and dress - China - History - To 1500
Fashion - China - History - To 1500
Silk - China - History - To 1500
Silk industry - China - History - To 1500
China - History - Tang dynasty, 618-907

ISBN:

9780295745305 and 0295745304

Description:

xiv, 257 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index

Contents:

Traces -- History : cloth and the logics of cosmopolitan empire -- Discourse : fashion and sumptuary regulation -- Surfaces -- Style : fashioning the Tang beauty -- Design : silk and the logics of fashion -- Desire : men of style and the metrics of fashion

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

GT1555 .C5463 2019

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