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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.
352 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 21, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231192491 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 226 × 152 × 18 mm · 394 g |
| Language | English |