Chinese Women and Attire
Women and Family in Chinese Society: East 2165"Correct attire was regarded as the ultimate expression of Chinese culture and identity, differentiating them from 'inferior' foreign neighbors while making social and gender distinctions within their society. The clothing of bodies had specific cultural meaning, with properly attired bodies reflecting order and control and unadorned bodies and feet serving as visible signs of disorder and dangerous nonconformity with the individual risking association to barbarian outsiders." (Goody 1990: 49)· The Principal Dynasties of China Page 3· Qing Dynasty and Manchurians 5· Mao Zedong and The People's Republic of China 15
"Its function as the phantom of modernity means that it would not so easily disappear from everyday life and from speech, even though the modernizers were eager to erase the shame and to start with a clear slate. Any who were found were detained on the spot at pistol-point while their hair was cut off or their clothing cut to ribbons. It was not used for its warmth, but to make the Sun Yat-sen suit in the early Republican era. When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles. II, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1975. (Steele 1985: 11) But once a child reached adolescence they wore the same plain colored clothes as adults. It was important for securing a husband, increased a daughters worth in marriage and it reflected well on her family's ability to raise her properly. Naqin, Susan, Chinese Society in the 18th Century. There was always an even number of buttons on the qipao, usually six. The communists were for the 'workers, peasants and soldiers. As countless people know, China was and in many ways still is a very traditional and male centered society. The rise of the collar imitated the rise in popularity of the military uniform, which had what is known as the band collar, but by the 1940s the collar was at a more comfortable medium height. , The Chinese: A Study of a Hong Kong Community.
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