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Author Liao, Sara, author

Title Fashioning china : precarious creativity and women designers in Shanzhai culture / Sara Liao
Published London : Pluto Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) : illustrations
Series Digital Barricades: Interventions in Digital Culture and Politics
Digital barricades.
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Fashion Work, Precarious Labor, and Women Designers in Shanzhai Culture -- 2. Shanzhai Fashion and Precarious Creativity in China -- 3. The Digital Labor and Production Culture of Shanzhai Fashion -- 4. The Shanzhai of Shanzhai: The Politics of Copying and Creativity -- 5. Shanzhai Dreams and the Chinese Dream -- 6. Shanzhai Culture, National Ideologies, and Transnational Capitalism: A Double-edged Sword -- Appendix: Demographics of Informants -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary A study of women creating fake fashion in China - and how it affects the economy, labour, creativity and culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 21, 2020)
Subject Fashion -- China
Women fashion designers -- China
Creative ability.
Imitation.
Brand name products.
Creativity
Imitative Behavior
creativity.
Brand name products
Creative ability
Fashion
Imitation
Women fashion designers
China
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781786805898
1786805898
9781786805904
1786805901
9781786805911
178680591X
0745340709
9780745340708