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Dressing the state, dressing the society: Ritual, morality, and conspicuous consumption in Ming dynasty China.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Dressing the state, dressing the society: Ritual, morality, and conspicuous consumption in Ming dynasty China./
Author:	Yuan, Zujie.
Description:	311 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Edward L. Farmer; Ann B. Waltner.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-05A.
Subject:	Economics, History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3052814
ISBN:	0493677429

Dressing the state, dressing the society: Ritual, morality, and conspicuous consumption in Ming dynasty China.
Yuan, Zujie.

Dressing the state, dressing the society: Ritual, morality, and conspicuous consumption in Ming dynasty China. - 311 p.

Advisers: Edward L. Farmer; Ann B. Waltner.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2002.

By examining the changes in the clothing system and consumption patterns in late Ming China, my thesis explores how state-society relations were influenced by commercialization. The Chinese clothing system in the imperial age has been considered by some scholars of the Annales school to be a symbol of a stable society where fashion did not exist. While acknowledging the efforts of the Ming imperial government in regulating people's clothing, I challenge this argument by illustrating how changes of people's clothing and clothing consumption were driven by fashion since the Middle Ming (around 1500). On the one hand, the Ming state did use sumptuary laws to regulate people's dress in order to strengthen its control over society, on the other hand, commercialization in the late Ming, particularly in the Jiangnan area, contributed to the deregulation of the clothing system, and so undermined state power. While the early modern history of certain European countries witnessed the rise of state power that guaranteed incipient capitalism a relatively secure environment, the so-called “sprouts of capitalism” in China weakened state power by subverting its moral pillars and ritual discipline, worsening the conditions for further economic development.

ISBN: 0493677429Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017418
Economics, History.

Dressing the state, dressing the society: Ritual, morality, and conspicuous consumption in Ming dynasty China.
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520 $a While tracing the changes of the Ming clothing system, with a focus on state-society relations, I also discuss Ming clothing production, gender patterns, class identity, and the influence of Chinese culture on economic development. If consumption and the rise of consumerism can be considered the principal forces facilitating capitalism and modernity in early modern Europe, evidence of equivalent phenomena in Ming society should point in the same direction. The leading role of the Yangzi delta in terms of economic development as well as cultural achievement indicates a close linkage between the two fields. The divergent modern paths of China and Europe, however, were rooted in their different cultural preferences, which can be observed through their clothing history.
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