From June 7-10 hair and beauty specialists from 20 countries in Asia gathered in Beijing to take part in the 1994 ⅩⅧ Asian Hairstyling and Make-up Competition. This was the first time the event was held in China. At...From June 7-10 hair and beauty specialists from 20 countries in Asia gathered in Beijing to take part in the 1994 ⅩⅧ Asian Hairstyling and Make-up Competition. This was the first time the event was held in China. At the same time an international cosmetic, hair and skin care products oriental beauty exposition also was taking place. Throughout history men and women have paid attention to physical beauty, both in the West and the East,展开更多
The human body, such as hair, serves as a prism through which historical and cultural contexts are effectively refracted. Despite its historical and cultural significance, the role of hair, however, remains curiously ...The human body, such as hair, serves as a prism through which historical and cultural contexts are effectively refracted. Despite its historical and cultural significance, the role of hair, however, remains curiously a marginalized subject among the renewed interests on the body in the academic fields. In this paper, the author attempts to politicize the queue from 3 perspectives： maintaining a certain prescribed hairstyle is a top-down gesture to construct national conformity; the boundary between Manchu and Han is invoked and reinvented through the battles surrounding the queue politic in late Qing and early Republic; the widespread debate between keeping the queue and cutting the queue at the turn of the 20th century epitomizes the haunting rhetoric of traditionalism and modernism pursuit of modernity in China.展开更多
文摘From June 7-10 hair and beauty specialists from 20 countries in Asia gathered in Beijing to take part in the 1994 ⅩⅧ Asian Hairstyling and Make-up Competition. This was the first time the event was held in China. At the same time an international cosmetic, hair and skin care products oriental beauty exposition also was taking place. Throughout history men and women have paid attention to physical beauty, both in the West and the East,
文摘The human body, such as hair, serves as a prism through which historical and cultural contexts are effectively refracted. Despite its historical and cultural significance, the role of hair, however, remains curiously a marginalized subject among the renewed interests on the body in the academic fields. In this paper, the author attempts to politicize the queue from 3 perspectives： maintaining a certain prescribed hairstyle is a top-down gesture to construct national conformity; the boundary between Manchu and Han is invoked and reinvented through the battles surrounding the queue politic in late Qing and early Republic; the widespread debate between keeping the queue and cutting the queue at the turn of the 20th century epitomizes the haunting rhetoric of traditionalism and modernism pursuit of modernity in China.
