The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China

Author/Contributor(s):	Hui, Calvin
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	09/21/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.