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Title: China Chic by Vivienne Tam ISBN: 0-06-039268-1 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What a Gorgeous Book!!
Comment: I just decorated my entire apartment in a fusion-asian style and this book was the last item I bought - to sit on my coffee table and accentuate the living room. I look at it all the time!!
Beautiful pictures throughout. What a wonderful book!!
Rating: 5
Summary: China......SO CHIC!
Comment: If you are interested in Chinese art, culture, clothing, and history, then this is your Bible. Chalked full of photos that pop off the page. This witty and interesting book takes you from Ming to present day China. Vivienne Tam reflects on her life, born in mainland China, raised in Hong Kong, then moving to New York. She tells charming stories about what has influenced and inspired her and her collections. Great interviews with members of China's creative community, and who can forget Mao? The book is designed like a large coffee table version of Mao's little red book! This is simply stunning.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hong Kong and China Brilliantly Observed
Comment: Big book with stunning and bright photo illustrations that "bleed" off the page.
Ms. Tam understands the style of Hong Kong and China (especially Shanghai) like few others; the best of that style is all here. She writes with enthusiasm and love for many essential aspects of the appeal of a culture known for its centuries-old aesthetic and for its mass-production and other mass sensibilities.
Tam's education at the Hong Kong Polytechnic gives her a unique vantage point for isolating Chinese chic. She can view Cultural Revolution paraphrenalia with the eye of a designer, collector, and artist, rather than with painful memories. In a show of global sophistication, she understands East-meets-West sensibility (her chapter on Chinglish is told with an appealing tenderness). The text comes off without a shimmer of self-consciousness or compulsion to 'be Chinese.' There is camp, sex, zen, pizzazz and beauty, exploding off of every page and augmented by Tam's tales of exploration and appreciation.
Bonus interviews with composer Tan Dun and choreographer/visionary Danny Yung are painfully short, but the reader still gets a healthy dose of young Chinese intelligensia. The text is endearingly personal, Vivienne Tam sharing with the reader what her senses take in. It's quite delightful.
Great keepsake for people who have visited Hong Kong or Shanghai!
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Title: China Chic: East Meets West by Valerie Steele, John S. Major, Fashion Institute of Technology ISBN: 0300079303 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Asian Elements: Natural Balance in Eastern Design by Jane Edwards, Andrew Wood ISBN: 1579590780 Publisher: Soma Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Chinese Propaganda Posters: From the Collection of Michael Wolf by Michael Wolf ISBN: 3822826197 Publisher: Taschen Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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