Tu The Beautiful Generation

Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9368-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten

This ethnography of Asian American designers in New Yorks fashion industry explores their relations to the garment workers who produce their goods and to Asianness as a fashionable commodity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tu, Thuy Linh Nguyen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Kunsthandwerk und Kunstgewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Fashion, Free Trade, and the "Rise of the Asian Designer" 1

Part I

1. Crossing the Assembly Line: Skills, Knowledge, and the Borders of Fashion 31

2. All in the Family? Kin, Gifts, and the Networks of Fashion 63

Part II

3. The Cultural Economy of Asian Chic 99

4. "Material Mao": Fashioning Histories Out of Icons 133

5. Asia on My Mind: Transnational Intimacies and Cultural Genealogies 169

Epilogue 203

Notes 209

Bibliography 239

Index 253

Über Autor(innen)

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies at New York University. She is a co-editor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, also published by Duke University Press, and TechniColor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life.