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The Vicissitude Of Urban Mainstream Clothing Culture During The Eastward Transmission Of Western Sciences (1898-1927)

Posted on:2011-06-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T T ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332965671Subject:World History
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The period of 1898 to 1927 was the end of Qing dynasty in Chinese society. For the whole historical process of Chinese society, this is a critical stage, and it is a tremendous historic period of transformation and transmutation. Following the fire of war from the East,the Western culture with its unique way to explore the Chinese market. It quietly infiltrated into each corner of the China earth. It can be said that such"the Eastward Transmission of Western Sciences"tide which the influence to the entire modern China is profound and intense. The modern history of china is an open history, whether it is the choice of active or passive acceptance. The market capitalization, the internationalization, and the cross-cultural communication are inevitable. And this cultural exchange under the mandatory influence of western culture in the whole of China in modern times, and it is showing the characteristic of the Eastward Transmission of Western Sciences.Clothing, are honored as the windvane of the time, mirror and the indicator of the social development. Therefore from the entire social life stratification plane, the clothing is the most sensitive reflection. The clothing is the characterization and carrier of the evolution of the social trend. By clothing's vicissitude, not only may spy on the Chinese society in the process, analyze the deep motivation to promote social development and the progressive ideological trend, but also can provide reference for today's culture-building and exchange of Chinese and Western learning. Clothing culture, is not only the material civilization, but also a spiritual culture. It is one kind of folk custom, the embodiment of beauty, and a symbol of fashion and taste. Under the influence of the Eastward Transmission of Western Sciences, West's narrow clothes culture, fashion sense, ideological and culture concept, the esthetic way, the life style, the science and technology, and each advanced idea and so on introduces into China day by day, and are accepted by people increasingly. Chinese clothing change occurs slowly at this time. Since Opium War's gradation, has hastened to the end of the Qing changes, and become the sudden change of the Republic of China, the clothing culture moves toward the modern age by the tradition.. It has achieved its market, liberalization, equity-oriented transformation..In this paper, the core issue is the relationship between the Eastward Transmission of Western Sciences and clothing change. Focused on analyzing is the situation of urban mainstream clothing change under the influence of the Eastward Transmission of Western Sciences. Around this issue, this article has three main strands to describe the issue. The first part firstly to analyze the characteristic of western clothing culture, the vicissitude situation, the tradition and the influence since the Industrial Revolution. The article parts two and three separately have explained the clothing evolution situation of the late Qing period and early Republic period under the influence of Western culture, and their respective characteristic of vicissitude, and the impact of specific performance, etc. As Chinese bourgeois elements into the stage of history from 1898 to 1927, their contribution was huge to the introduction and the transmission of Western culture for they are important social groups. Compared to the clothing change of previous period, this time showing the feature of more intense turbulence and distinctive. This paper wants to through solving small problem to solve big problem, and reflect the problem in nowadays.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Eastward Transmission of Western Sciences, clothing, vicissitude of clothing, culture, influence
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