Fashioning China
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Fashioning China

Precarious Creativity and Women Designers in Shanzhai Culture

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Fashioning China

Precarious Creativity and Women Designers in Shanzhai Culture

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'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the global market. Starting with mobile phones, now fashion brands are subverted in this way, with many women at the helm of design and production. Fashioning China looks at the women designers simultaneously subverting and reinforcing the nationalist-developmentalist, masculinist and technocratic dream of brands that are 'Made in China'.

Broadening the digital labour debate beyond typical masculine and techno-utopic readings, Sara Liao studies the precarious practices of women trying to create sustainable and creative lives, vividly illustrating a fashion culture that exists online as a significant part of the digital economy.

Drawing on material from interviews, participant observation, archives, policy documents, films and advertisements, Liao takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, charting out the politics of intellectual property rights, globalisation, technocracy, patriarchy and nationalism in a non-Western context.

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Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781786805898
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Figures
  4. Series Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1. Introduction
  7. 2. Shanzhai Fashion and Precarious Creativity in China
  8. 3. The Digital Labor and Production Culture of Shanzhai Fashion
  9. 4. The Shanzhai of Shanzhai: The Politics of Copying and Creating
  10. 5. Shanzhai Dreams and the Chinese Dream
  11. 6. Shanzhai Culture, National Ideologies and Transnational Capitalism: A Double-edged Sword
  12. Appendix: Demographics of Informants
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index