Fashionable Times: An Inquiry into the History of China's Modernity

时尚曾经被认为是一种纯粹的西方现象，等同于彻头彻尾的现代生活，最近却出人意料地出现在了帝王晚期中国的城市生活史上，也出现在了20世纪中国的民族主义史上。说到中国时尚，有效地提出了一个关于中国现代性的起源和进程的问题。该项目旨在通过对从明到毛的服装文化的研究来回答这个问题，预期的结果是一本图文并茂的专著，引起时尚理论、物质文化和中国历史领域的学者和普通读者的兴趣。

Fashion, once regarded as a purely Western phenomenon and equated with thoroughly modern life, has recently made an improbable appearance in histories both of urban life in late imperial China and of twentieth-century Chinese nationalism. To speak of Chinese fashion is effectively to raise a question about the origins and course of China's modernity. The project aims to respond to this question through a study of the culture of clothing from Ming to Mao, the expected outcome being an illustrated monograph of interest to scholars and general readers in the fields of fashion theory, material culture, and Chinese history.