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๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง ๐
๐๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐จ๐ง
๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐จ
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chinese garments โ especially pleated silk skirts worn by Han Chinese women โ found new life in Europe and the US. These richly decorated textiles were often taken apart, adapted, and refashioned into Western-style clothing.
This talk traces the trajectories of refashioned Chinese skirts, exploring their history in China, the international trade in second-hand Chinese textiles, the historical practice of reusing and modifying garments in Europe and the US, and chinoiserie in fashion. Rather than looking at these hybrid garments as โinauthenticโ or โcompromisedโ objects, Mei Mei Rado invites us to consider how their transformations activated a new fashion cycle in a different cultural context โ one that infused new lives and meanings into cast-out items from another culture.
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๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐จ is Assistant Professor of Textiles, Dress, and Decorative Arts at Bard Graduate Center. Previously she was Associate Curator of Costume and Textiles at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and had held curatorial and research positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, and the Palace Museum. Her research focuses on Chinese and French textiles and dress from the eighteen to early twentieth century. She is the author of ๐โ๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐ค ๐ถ๐๐๐กโ: ๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐ -๐ถ๐ข๐๐ก๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐ข๐๐ก (2025).
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๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ข is curator of Chinese art at the Asian Civilisations Museum. Her research interests include East Asian ceramics, textiles, and objects that arise from exchanges between different cultures and mediums. She recently curated ๐น๐ข๐๐ข๐ ๐: ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ก ๐ถ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ถโ๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ข๐ (2024).
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