The Art Of Useless: Fashion, Media, And Consumer Culture In Contemporary China

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.

• | By (Author): Calvin Hui
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 21, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0231192495
• | ISBN-13: 9780231192491