Fashioning China: Precarious Creativity and Women Designers in Shanzhai Culture

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like...
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Author: Sara Liao
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Fashioning China: Precarious Creativity and Women Designers in Shanzhai Culture by Liao, Sara

Fashioning China: Precarious Creativity and Women Designers in Shanzhai Culture

Dhs. 1,049.34

Fashioning China: Precarious Creativity and Women Designers in Shanzhai Culture

Dhs. 1,049.34
Author: Sara Liao
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the global market. Starting with mobile phones, now fashion brands are subverted in this way, with many women at the helm of design and production. Fashioning China looks at the women designers simultaneously subverting and reinforcing the nationalist-developmentalist, masculinist and technocratic dream of brands that are 'Made in China'. Broadening the digital labour debate beyond typical masculine and techno-utopic readings, Sara Liao studies the precarious practices of women trying to create sustainable and creative lives, vividly illustrating a fashion culture that exists online as a significant part of the digital economy. Drawing on material from interviews, participant observation, archives, policy documents, films and advertisements, Liao takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, charting out the politics of intellectual property rights, globalisation, technocracy, patriarchy and nationalism in a non-Western context.

Author: Sara Liao
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 02/20/2020
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780745340692

About the Author
Sara Liao is Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has published in several journals including, Fashion Theory, International Journal of Communication, Communication, Culture, Critique, and Chinese Journal of Communication.


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