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Yangzhou's "Mondernity": Fashion and Consumption in the Early Nineteenth Century

Yangzhou's "Mondernity": Fashion and Consumption in the Early Nineteenth Century positions 11:2 Fall 2003 Nonetheless, Bell overstated his case in asserting that “the Chinese family of the last [i.e., nineteenth] century looked very much like a Chinese family of the classical age.”3 He should not be judged too harshly on this account. He took advantage of such writings on Chinese dress as were then available to him, and at the microlevel of sartorial detail not much more has been published since. Fernand Braudel, writing at a much later date, echoed Bell when he stated of the mandarin’s robes that they “scarcely changed in the course of centuries, but then Chinese society itself scarcely moved at all.”4 Contemporary historians of China, with access to works in Chinese and Japanese, face much the same problem as Bell and Braudel did: a specialist literature on clothing culture in Chinese history that has only recently begun to expand and is generally too broad in its coverage of space and time to provide any sense of local, short-term sartorial trends and practices. Examining luxury consumption in eighteenth-century China, Kenneth Pomeranz was no more able than Bell or Braudel to discern an impulse toward fashion—for this period, at least. He brought a critical perspective http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

Yangzhou's "Mondernity": Fashion and Consumption in the Early Nineteenth Century

Finnane, Antonia
positions asia critique , Volume 11 (2) – Sep 1, 2003
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positions 11:2 Fall 2003 Nonetheless, Bell overstated his case in asserting that “the Chinese family of the last [i.e., nineteenth] century looked very much like a Chinese family of the classical age.”3 He should not be judged too harshly on this account. He took advantage of such writings on Chinese dress as were then available to him, and at the microlevel of sartorial detail not much more has been published since. Fernand Braudel, writing at a much later date, echoed Bell when he stated of the mandarin’s robes that they “scarcely changed in the course of centuries, but then Chinese society itself scarcely moved at all.”4 Contemporary historians of China, with access to works in Chinese and Japanese, face much the same problem as Bell and Braudel did: a specialist literature on clothing culture in Chinese history that has only recently begun to expand and is generally too broad in its coverage of space and time to provide any sense of local, short-term sartorial trends and practices. Examining luxury consumption in eighteenth-century China, Kenneth Pomeranz was no more able than Bell or Braudel to discern an impulse toward fashion—for this period, at least. He brought a critical perspective

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