The Art of Useless. Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China, Paperback/Calvin Hui

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. Publisher: Columbia University Press Author(s): Calvin Hui Number of pages: 280 Collection: Global Chinese Culture Publication date: 2021 Dimensions: 152 x 226 x 18 Cover type: Paperback / softback