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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 755–783.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Antonia Finnane Abstract With the “consumption turn” in the humanities and the social sciences, a phenomenon evident in English-language scholarship from the 1980s onward, production ceased to command the attention it had once received from historians. A recent (2012) study of the sewing machine...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 789–793.
Published: 01 August 2016
..., barely 1,400 sewing machines (out of 83,000); within three years this had fallen to less than 700. However, as Nira Wickramasinghe has recently demonstrated with respect to Ceylon (colonial Sri Lanka), Japan had a significance that ranged well beyond its limited commercial impact: it inspired admiration...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 785–788.
Published: 01 August 2016
... more time with Antonia Finnane's article, “Cold War Sewing Machines,” as it treats an object near and dear to me (Gordon 2012). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016 2016 These intriguing articles explore the production, the selling, and the use in East Asia of two...
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Published: 01 November 2012
Figure 7. Woman sewing, Shaanxi Province. Photograph by Gail Hershatter, 2004 .
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in Cold War Sewing Machines: Production and Consumption in 1950s China and Japan
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2016
Figure 2. Catalog listing of a portable Singer 24 sewing machine with optional cover. The cost was $67.00, or $70.00 with cover included ( Shengjia , n.d. ).
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in Cold War Sewing Machines: Production and Consumption in 1950s China and Japan
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2016
Figure 3. Advertisement for Yah Chong's Butterfly (“Invincible”) sewing machine. A ten-year guarantee is offered on the machine, which is advertised as having both sewing and embroidery capacities (Wang Guizhang 1950 ).
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in Cold War Sewing Machines: Production and Consumption in 1950s China and Japan
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2016
Figure 4. Front cover of a 1952 sewing machine repair manual (Liu 1952 ).
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in Cold War Sewing Machines: Production and Consumption in 1950s China and Japan
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2016
Figure 6. Panda brand sewing machine of the early 1970s. The panda logo (right) is displayed on the front of the machine. The machine is emblazoned on its rear side with words in the calligraphy of Mao Zedong (his name appended): “serve the people” (left). Photo by the author, Yangzhou, 2015.
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in Cold War Sewing Machines: Production and Consumption in 1950s China and Japan
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2016
Figure 5. Front cover of a primer for how to sew “Western” (i.e., tailored) garments, prepared and printed by the teacher at the New Life Western tailoring vocational school in Xidan, Beijing. The Yah Chong advertisement appears to be the model, but the woman has changed clothes from qipao
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 379–396.
Published: 01 May 1998
... contributed pin money of NT $0.50 each day (just over a penny at that time) to help supplement medical fees for the poor. The nuns sewed children's shoes to generate a little more income, and their monthly total of funds available for charity was under NT $1,200 (about US $30 at that time). Today Ciji...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1949) 8 (2): 184–186.
Published: 01 February 1949
...Monika Kehoe Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1949 1949 1 When the writer asked to see the laboratory in women's colleges, she was inevitably shown the room where sewing machines were the major equipment. 2 Two of the three women's colleges have no libraries...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 571–574.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of research articles and a couple of commentaries that explore the social and cultural history of two very different devices—typewriters and sewing machines. The forum opens with T homas S. M ullaney ’s “Controlling the Kanjisphere: The Rise of the Sino-Japanese Typewriter and the Birth of CJK,” which looks...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1487–1489.
Published: 01 November 2008
...). The political opposition responded to Premadasa's 200 GFP with “the underwear critique,” summarized in the sentence, “Our innocent girls are sewing underwear for white women” (p. 92). Lynch's analysis of this political debate highlights the centrality of gender in the preservation of tradition, whereby...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 637–640.
Published: 01 May 2009
... the prevailing assumption of a young girl's domestic destiny and the teaching of sewing and other domestic crafts at home, family leisure and wealth allowed middle-class girls like Raichō many opportunities to expand their horizons. They attended public or private single-sex high schools; received private...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 597–624.
Published: 01 August 2004
... little friend and sister in the Lord Jesus Christ, K. Henriette Ulfers Kisner She sometimes begged her readers forgiveness for not writing sooner, the rst letter coming two years after having received a letter from them along with gifts that they had sent, namely, supplies to be used in her sewing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 993–995.
Published: 01 August 2003
... such as sewing, embroidering, teaching, shoemaking, jewelry making, hairdressing and doing makeup, samosa making, and making parandas for braiding hair. This section seems to be the core of Weiss's argument. She widens the whole notion of work beyond the formal economy and gives due importance to work by women...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 539–562.
Published: 01 August 2013
... in a number of activities that were widely regarded as civilized. They read newspapers, attended school, donated money to educational institutions, and even sewed police uniforms. In one sense, the sudden appearance of enlightened geisha is not surprising. In the 1870s, the phrase “civilization...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 714–716.
Published: 01 August 2021
... trends that developed around three luxury goods: wristwatches, bicycles, and sewing machines. Chapter 2 discusses the Communist state's choice to prioritize capital accumulation after 1949. Chapter 3 explores the influence of the Soviet model of “state consumerism” and consumption trends linked to Soviet...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 934–936.
Published: 01 August 2009
.... Similarly, analysis of the Republican fashion industry adds to debates about advertising, marketing, and consumerism that hitherto have been dominated mostly by business historians. At the same time, the book's thoughtful account of how sewing and knitting remained common through the twentieth century...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 207–209.
Published: 01 February 2014
..., the future mover-and-shaker of Chinese modernism survived the inferno of plunder, rape, and killing by sleeping soundly, hidden under an upturned trunk. Left with three young children to raise, Lao She's mother tried to make ends meet by taking in laundry and sewing. From very early on, as Lao She would...
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