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Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia

Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia

Lee, S. Heijin
Moon, Christina H.
Tu, Thuy Linh Nguyen

Hardcover

Series: Nyu Social and Cultural Analysis, Book 6

Asian American StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1479892157
ISBN13: 9781479892150
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Jun 3 2019
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

How transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to Asia

Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodily aesthetics in the shaping of Asian modernities and the formation of the so-called Asian Century. S. Heijin Lee, Christina H. Moon, and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu train our eyes on sites as far-flung, varied, and intimate as Guangzhou and Los Angeles, Saigon and Seoul, New York and Toronto. They map the transregional connections, ever-evolving aspirations and sensibilities, and new worlds and life paths forged through engagements with fashion and beauty.

Contributors consider American influence on plastic surgery in Korea, Vietnamese debates about the fashionable, and the costs and commitments demanded of those who make and wear fast fashion, from Chinese garment workers to Nepalese nail technicians in New York who are mandated to dress fashionably. In doing so, this interdisciplinary anthology moves beyond common characterizations of Asians and the Asian diaspora as simply abject laborers or frenzied consumers, analyzing who the modern Asian subject is now: what they wear and how they work, move, eat, and shop.

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