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Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia
Christina H. Moon (Hrsg.), S. Heijin Lee (Hrsg.), Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (Hrsg.)
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Beschreibung
How transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to Asia
Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodily aesthetics in the shaping of Asian modernities and the 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, and intimate as Guangzhou and Los Angeles, Saigon and Seoul, New York and Toronto. They map the transregional connections, ever-evolving aspirations and sensibilities, and new worlds and life paths forged through engagements with fashion and beauty.
Contributors consider American influence on plastic surgery in Korea, Vietnamese debates about “the fashionable,” and the costs and commitments demanded of those who make and wear fast fashion, from Chinese garment workers to Nepalese nail technicians in New York who are mandated to dress "fashionably." In doing so, this interdisciplinary anthology moves beyond common characterizations of Asians and the Asian diaspora as simply abject laborers or frenzied consumers, analyzing who the modern Asian subject is now: what they wear and how they work, move, eat, and shop.
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cosmetics, ethnography, nail salon, transnational body labor, social media, skin, transnational, Vietnam, nail salons, deprofessionalized, global commodity chains, Jezebel, consumers, Asian Century, Asian workers, Asian labor, femininity, global capitalism, Metropolitan Museum of Art, global South, body labor, global North, globalization, Nepal, modernity, migration, plastic surgery, suitability, neoliberalism, Philippines, transnational feminism, Korean pop culture, consumer, global feminism, feminism, research encounters, Orientalism, development, Korea, fast-fashion families, displacement, Ho Chi Minh City, diaspora, transregional, creativity, fast fashion, little freedoms, skin literacy, Toronto, social capital, custom fit, Womenlink, China