{"product_id":"a-fashionable-century-rachel-silberstein-9780295747187","title":"A Fashionable Century: Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention for the 2023 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn innovative look at late-Qing cultural and fashion history\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eClothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much about women's participation in the commercialization of textile handicrafts and the flourishing of urban popular culture. Focusing on women's work and fashion, \u003ci\u003eA Fashionable Century\u003c\/i\u003e presents an array of visually compelling clothing and accessories neglected by traditional histories of Chinese dress, examining these products' potential to illuminate issues of gender and identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the late Qing, the expansion of production systems and market economies transformed the Chinese fashion system, widening access to fashionable techniques, materials, and imagery. Challenging the conventional production model, in which women embroidered items at home, Silberstein sets fashion within a process of commercialization that created networks of urban guilds, commercial workshops, and subcontracted female workers. These networks gave rise to new trends influenced by performance and prints, and they offered women opportunities to participate in fashion and contribute to local economies and cultures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel Silberstein draws on vernacular and commercial sources, rather than on the official and imperial texts prevalent in Chinese dress history, to demonstrate that in these fascinating objects--regulated by market desires, rather than imperial edict--fashion formed at the intersection of commerce and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Fashionable Century\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the Costume Society of America's Millia Davenport Publication Award and was long-listed for the Textile Society of America's R. L. Shep Award. The judges described the book as \"an extraordinary achievement in scholarship working with source materials that are little-known outside of China and not otherwise available in English.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Silberstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295747188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295747187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Rachel Silberstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46401754595583,"sku":"9780295747187","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_51533dec-c29a-4a20-bb76-70f69bd99add.jpg?v=1733888592","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-fashionable-century-rachel-silberstein-9780295747187","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}