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The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China - Global Chinese Culture Calvin Hui
The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China - Global Chinese Culture
Calvin Hui
The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China’s political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer culture helps anticipate, produce, and shape a new middle-class subjectivity. Calvin Hui examines changing representations of the production and consumption of fashion in documentaries and films.
416 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 21, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231192484 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 236 × 25 mm · 576 g |
| Language | English |