Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia: 6 (NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis) - Hardcover

S. Heijin Heijin Lee; Christina H. Moon; Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1479892157 ISBN 13: 9781479892150

Publisher: NYU Press, 2019

Synopsis

Howtransnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to Asia Fashion and Beauty in the Time ofAsiaconsiders the role of bodily aesthetics in the shaping of Asian modernities andthe formation of the so-called “Asian Century.” S. Heijin Lee, Christina H.Moon, and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu train our eyes on sites as far-flung, varied, andintimate as Guangzhou and Los Angeles, Saigon and Seoul, New York and Toronto. Theymap the transregional connections, ever-evolving aspirations and sensibilities,and new worlds and life paths forged through engagements with fashion andbeauty. Contributorsconsider American influence on plastic surgery in Korea, Vietnamese debatesabout “the fashionable,” and the costs and commitments demanded of those whomake and wear fast fashion, from Chinese garment workers to Nepalese nailtechnicians in New York who are mandated to dress "fashionably." Indoing so, this interdisciplinary anthology moves beyond commoncharacterizations of Asians and the Asian diaspora as simply abject laborers orfrenzied consumers, analyzing who the modern Asian subject is now: what theywear and how they work, move, eat, and shop.

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Review:

"As Asia becomes increasingly central to the global fashion system, books like Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia become ever more important."--Dr. Valerie Steele, Director, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

"Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia is razor sharp in its framework and rigorous in its analysis. Eschewing tropes about the Asian continent and its oblique relationship to Western industries, the book maps new transnational circuits of exchange and offers readers fresh language to explain modernity, geopolitics, economics, and global taste cultures. It is so refreshing to read scholarship that takes fashion and beauty seriously."--Tanisha C. Ford, author of Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion

About the Author:

S. Heijin Lee is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Lee is co-editor of Other Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea (2018) and the forthcoming The Geopolitics of Beauty: Transnational Circulations of Plastic Surgery, Pop and Pleasure.

About this edition

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1479892157
• ISBN 13: 9781479892150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320