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Author Liao, Sara, author.

Title Fashioning china : precarious creativity and women designers in Shanzhai culture / Sara Liao.

Publication Info. London : Pluto Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Digital Barricades: Interventions in Digital Culture and Politics.
Digital barricades.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Fashion -- China.
Fashion.
China.
Women fashion designers -- China.
Women fashion designers.
Creative ability.
Creative ability.
Imitation.
Imitation.
Brand name products.
Brand name products.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version : 9780745340692
ISBN 9781786805898 (electronic book)
1786805898 (electronic book)
9781786805904 (ePub ebook)
1786805901
9780745340692 (hardback)
9780745340708 (paperback)
9781786805911 (Kindle ebook)
178680591X
0745340709 (UK-Trade Paper)
9780745340708
Standard No. 9780745340708