Apr 27, 2015 · Looking for the Jiang Qing Dress: Some Preliminary Findings Antonia Finnane Antonia Finnane is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Melbourne. She is the author of Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City 1550–1850 (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2004) and co-editor with Anne McLaren of Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese ...

Jiang Qing[a][note 1] (March 1914 – 14 May 1991), also known as Madame Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary, actress, and political figure. She was the fourth wife of Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Communist Party and Paramount leader of China.

Aug 23, 2021 · No.2: Jiang Qing, Mao Suits With A Feminine Touch The Controversial One among the First Ladies, Jiang was the first FLOC of the People’s Republic of China. Spouse to Mao Zedong, she was an active political figure during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) as well as the leader of a little alliance called the “Gang of Four.”

Mar 1, 2005 · Notorious as much for its fashion as for its music, the 1960s and 1970s produced provocative fashion trends that reflected the rising wave of gender politics and the sexual revolution.

Historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. In this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane challenges this view, which she argues is based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century representations of Chinese dress as …

Apr 13, 2024 · After Jiang Qing gained power, she found a lot of tailors to design a representative dress that belonged to her period. She wants to imitate the "Chinese tunic suit" of Mr. Zhong Xian, the father of the country, and become the "national dress" admired by everyone.

5 days ago · Uniforms of workers' militia in the 1970s covered up gender distinctions. In the mid-1970s Mao's wife Jiang Qing improved the platye and made it completely Chinese in style. Though many female cadres hastened to wear it, it wasn't popular among common people.

Jan 24, 2008 · Based largely on nineteenth and twentieth-century representations of Chinese dress as traditional and unchanging, historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western.

In 1974, Jiang Qing made a "great initiative" by designing "national uniforms" for women. In order to show her "distinctiveness" and improve her status, the power-hungry Jiang Qing dreamed of designing a "Jiang Qing Suit" that would be on par with the Chinese tunic suit.

Ruqun (Chinese: 襦裙;) is a set of attire in Hanfu which consists of a short jacket typically called ru (Chinese: 襦; pinyin: rú) worn under a long Chinese skirt called qun (Chinese: 裙; pinyin: qún). [1] However, when use as a general term, ruqun can broadly describe a set of attire which consists of a separated upper garment and a wrap-around lower skirt, or yichang (Chinese: 衣裳 ...