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題名 Fashioning the Cosmopolitan Girl: Sartorial Display and Technologies of Femininity in the Chinese Bestseller Du Lala
作者 陳音頤
貢獻者 英文系
關鍵詞 Du Lala; fashion and contemporary China; modern urban Chinese women; neoliberalism
日期 2013.11
上傳時間 24-Mar-2014 15:13:11 (UTC+8)
摘要 This article focuses on the bestselling Du Lala novel series portraying the career rise and love life of a "foreign corporate white collar woman" in contemporary China. It argues that on top of the books` popular image as career novels that offer useful tips on office politics and desirable Western business practices for young, educated, upwardly mobile urban women, they also inculcate sartorial and consuming practices as a crucial technology to construct an ideal cosmopolitan femininity predicated on material success, cultural and economic capital, and integration with the world. In Lala`s process of "striving for success" (fen dou) and her fashioning of a neoliberal, enterprising, and self-responsible self who is determined to achieve success and status often measured in terms of financial gains and commodity ownership, sartorial display, bodily adornment, and material consumption mediated via Western styles/brands figure crucially. Fashion thus functions as a crucial and contested site where global consumer culture, local tradition, and post-socialist party politics intricately intertwine and vie for ascendance, with consequences reverberating both in the geopolitical dimension of modernization and also in the biopolitical dimension of self-construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
關聯 Fashion Theory,17(5), 553-578
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175174113X13718320330919
dc.contributor 英文系en_US
dc.creator (作者) 陳音頤zh_TW
dc.date (日期) 2013.11en_US
dc.date.accessioned 24-Mar-2014 15:13:11 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 24-Mar-2014 15:13:11 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 24-Mar-2014 15:13:11 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/64866-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) This article focuses on the bestselling Du Lala novel series portraying the career rise and love life of a "foreign corporate white collar woman" in contemporary China. It argues that on top of the books` popular image as career novels that offer useful tips on office politics and desirable Western business practices for young, educated, upwardly mobile urban women, they also inculcate sartorial and consuming practices as a crucial technology to construct an ideal cosmopolitan femininity predicated on material success, cultural and economic capital, and integration with the world. In Lala`s process of "striving for success" (fen dou) and her fashioning of a neoliberal, enterprising, and self-responsible self who is determined to achieve success and status often measured in terms of financial gains and commodity ownership, sartorial display, bodily adornment, and material consumption mediated via Western styles/brands figure crucially. Fashion thus functions as a crucial and contested site where global consumer culture, local tradition, and post-socialist party politics intricately intertwine and vie for ascendance, with consequences reverberating both in the geopolitical dimension of modernization and also in the biopolitical dimension of self-construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]en_US
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dc.relation (關聯) Fashion Theory,17(5), 553-578en_US
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Du Lala; fashion and contemporary China; modern urban Chinese women; neoliberalismen_US
dc.title (題名) Fashioning the Cosmopolitan Girl: Sartorial Display and Technologies of Femininity in the Chinese Bestseller Du Lalaen_US
dc.type (資料類型) articleen
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.2752/175174113X13718320330919en_US
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175174113X13718320330919 en_US