Fashion and Modernity in Taiwan

From Colonial Memory to Global Runways
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-36718-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Fashion in Taiwan: From Colonial Memory to Global Runways offers a vivid, multi-layered portrait of fashion in motion, tracing how Taiwan's sartorial landscape has been shaped by colonial modernity, Cold War diplomacy, global fashion circuits, and the everyday creativity of its people. This interdisciplinary collection brings together dress historians, designers, photographers, enthusiast collectors, and cultural theorists to showcase how clothing practices reflect and demonstrate the agency of individuals and communities in creating meaning through dress.

From Japanese designers transforming women’s wardrobes in the 1930s and the intertwined visual histories of Tn^g-sann and modern dress, to the rise of vintage fashion consumption and the self-fashioning of contemporary Taiwanese designers and creatives on the international stage, each chapter reveals fashion as a site of negotiation, aspiration, and identity. Richly researched and visually attuned, this book illuminates Taiwan not as a peripheral fashion story but as a dynamic crossroads of influence and innovation. Fashion and Modernity in Taiwan invites readers to rethink Taiwan’s cultural histories through the garments, visualities, and aesthetic choices that continue to shape its place in the world.

The chapters in this book were previously published as a special issue in Fashion Theory.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chih-wei Su, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Modedesign, Stoffe, Schmuckdesign
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Sewing Wool: Japanese Fashion Designers and Women’s Fashion in 1930s Taiwan 2. Lived In Bars: Deng Nan-guang as the Vagabond-tourist of Taiwanese Fashion Photography 3. Wearing Free China: Gendered Diplomacy and the Politics of the Qipao in Taiwan–Australia Relations During the Global Sixties 4. Interwoven Threads: A Quantitative Visual Analysis of Taiwan’s Tn^g-sann and Qipao 5. Bridging Fashion and Sustainability: Exploring the Cultural Impact of Vintage Clothing in Taiwan 6. The Layers of Taiwanese Identity: Exploring Fashion Designers’ Cultural Expression 7. Taiwan in Italy: Cultural Mediation, Validation and Self-Actualization in the Global Fashion System

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Chih-wei Su is an independent scholar whose current research interests include fashion and visual histories of Taiwan and other East Asian cultures and diasporas. He collaborates regularly with other researchers, institutions, artists, and communities on furthering understandings of the production and consumption of cultural memory narratives and image-making in present-day society.