Department stores and the commodification of culture: artful marketing in a globalizing world

The fate of the artisan in revolutionary China: tailors in Beijing, 1930s-1960s.

This study of tailors and garment production in mid-twentieth century Beijing explores the effects of Communism on the city's foremost handi..

Consumption in Late Imperial China: an Early Modern Phenomenon?

This study of consumer activities in earlier centuries will shed light on changes as well as continuities in Chinese consumption in a long e..