Empire of style : silk and fashion in Tang China /

Chen, Buyun,

Empire of style : silk and fashion in Tang China / BuYun Chen. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Traces -- History : cloth and the logics of cosmopolitan empire -- Discourse : fashion and sumptuary regulation -- Surfaces -- Style : fashioning the Tang beauty -- Design : silk and the logics of fashion -- Desire : men of style and the metrics of fashion.



9780295745312


Clothing and dress--History--China--To 1500.
Fashion--History--China--To 1500.
Silk--History--China--To 1500.
Silk industry--History--China--To 1500.


Electronic Books.

GT1555 / .E475 2019