The Beautiful Generation
Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion
1st Edition
Published on 21. December 2010
270 pages
978-0-8223-9368-9 (ISBN)
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This ethnography of Asian American designers in New Yorks fashion industry explores their relations to the garment workers who produce their goods and to Asianness as a fashionable commodity.
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Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies at New York University. She is a co-editor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, also published by Duke University Press, and TechniColor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Fashion, Free Trade, and the "Rise of the Asian Designer" 1
Part I
1. Crossing the Assembly Line: Skills, Knowledge, and the Borders of Fashion 31
2. All in the Family? Kin, Gifts, and the Networks of Fashion 63
Part II
3. The Cultural Economy of Asian Chic 99
4. "Material Mao": Fashioning Histories Out of Icons 133
5. Asia on My Mind: Transnational Intimacies and Cultural Genealogies 169
Epilogue 203
Notes 209
Bibliography 239
Index 253
Introduction: Fashion, Free Trade, and the "Rise of the Asian Designer" 1
Part I
1. Crossing the Assembly Line: Skills, Knowledge, and the Borders of Fashion 31
2. All in the Family? Kin, Gifts, and the Networks of Fashion 63
Part II
3. The Cultural Economy of Asian Chic 99
4. "Material Mao": Fashioning Histories Out of Icons 133
5. Asia on My Mind: Transnational Intimacies and Cultural Genealogies 169
Epilogue 203
Notes 209
Bibliography 239
Index 253
