Cold War Sewing Machines: Production and Consumption in 1950s China and Japan

Antonia Finnane

Journal article

Cold War Sewing Machines: Production and Consumption in 1950s China and Japan

Antonia Finnane

The Journal of Asian Studies | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1017/S0021911816000607

University of Melbourne Researchers

Antonia Finnane Author Historical and Philosophical Studies

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Funding Acknowledgements

Research for this article was supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council. I thank Bick-har Yeung, Lo-pei Neale, and Wei Ying of Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, for help with resources for the research. Thanks are due also to Dr. Anne Peirson-Smith, CUHK, for inviting me to present a keynote address at the conference "Fashion in Faction: Style Stories and Transglobal Narratives,"City University of Hong Kong, June 12-14, 2014. That address provided the foundations of this article.