A Fashionable Century : Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: In the Museum -- Terms, Abbreviations, and Chronology -- Introduction -- Part One: Creating Fashion Through the Dynasty -- 1. Visualizing Fashion: Ethnicity, Place, and Transmission -- 2. "Outlandish Costume and Strange Hats": Moral Discourses of Fashion -- 3. Workshop, Boudoir, Village: Producing Embroidered Dress -- Part Two: Plays and Poems -- 4. Performance, Print, and Pattern: Popular Culture in Fashion -- 5. "The Luxury of Words": Fashion Authorities and Aspirations -- Conclution -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1: A Dowry List for a Zhejiang Gentlewoman in the Late Qing -- Appendix 2: Clothing, Textile, and Accessory Shop Names in Mid-Qing Suzhou -- Appendix 3: Commercial Embroidery Price List from the End of the Qing Dynasty -- Appendix 4: Qing Dynasty Commercial Clothing, Accessory, and Embroidery Guilds -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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