TY - BOOK ID - 85166141 TI - The Chinese fashion industry : an ethnographic approach PY - 2013 SN - 1847889360 1847889387 0857853023 9781847889386 1847889352 1306865441 PB - London New York Bloomsbury Academic DB - UniCat KW - Clothing trade KW - Fashion design KW - Fashion merchandising KW - Fashion marketing KW - Merchandising KW - Retail trade KW - Clothing and dress KW - Clothing design KW - Dress design KW - Design KW - Apparel industry KW - Clothiers KW - Clothing industry KW - Fashion industry KW - Garment industry KW - Rag trade KW - Textile industry KW - Tailors KW - China KW - Economic conditions. KW - Social conditions. KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85166141 AB - Less than three decades ago, when the Chinese bought cloth or clothes, they would have had to use a government-issued coupon. Today the Chinese fashion industry is one of the most dynamic in the world - it not only supplies fashions to the increasingly discerning domestic market, but also provides one-third of the clothing sold in the global market. How did this phenomenal transition come about? What can the growth of the Chinese fashion industry tell us about the post-Mao China? What roles do the local and the global play in the dramatic changes? This book offers a historically inf ER -