Research Catalog

Title

Empire of style : silk and fashion in Tang China / BuYun Chen.

Author

Chen, Buyun,

Publication

• Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
• ©2019

Details

Description

xiv, 257 pages : illustrations, map; 27 cm

Subject

• China > History > Tang dynasty, 618-907
• China
• Clothing and dress > China > History > To 1500
• Clothing and dress
• Fashion > China > History > To 1500
• Fashion
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
• Silk > China > History > To 1500
• Silk industry > China > History > To 1500
• Silk industry
• Silk
• Tang Dynasty (China)
• To 1500

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index.

Contents

Traces -- History : cloth and the logics of cosmopolitan empire -- Discourse : fashion and sumptuary regulation -- Surfaces -- Style : fashioning the Tang beauty -- Design : silk and the logics of fashion -- Desire : men of style and the metrics of fashion.

ISBN

• 0295745304
• 9780295745312 (canceled/invalid)
• 0295745312 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018038430