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.
- | Author: Calvin Hui
- | Publisher: Columbia University Press
- | Publication Date: 21-Sep-21
- | Number of Pages: 280 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0231192487
- | ISBN-13: 9780231192484