Laing, Ellen Johnston, “Visual Evidence for the Evolution of "Politically Correct" Dress for Women in Early Twentieth Century Shanghai” (2003)

Title : “Visual Evidence for the Evolution of "Politically Correct" Dress for Women in Early Twentieth Century Shanghai”

Author(s) : Laing, Ellen Johnston

Year : 2003

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : social;visual;women;gender

Journal : Nan Nu: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China

Volume : 5

Number : 1

Start page : 69

End page : 114

Language:Name : English

Support : Print

Abstract : Examines women's dress in early-20th-century Shanghai through illustrations from periodicals and advertising calendar posters and discusses attempts to regulate women's fashion in the face of growing Western influence and the return after 1925 of the traditional qipao, also known as the cheongsam.