Buyun Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Buyun Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Buyun |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-7165-1829 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways…
Vers une histoire globale de la mode
L’étiquette « globale » s’applique désormais à des champs aussi différents que l’éducation, la communication et l’environnement. La mode est d’addition récente, alors que ce que veut dire ou revendiquer la notion de « mode globale » n’a rien d’évident. Cette conversation entre cinq chercheuses et chercheurs qui travaillent à l’intersection de la mode, de l’histoire, des études muséales, des études régionales, de l’anthropologie et de l’ethnograph…
To Embrace and Protect
The last centuries of the Ryukyu Kingdom (?–1879; modern-day Okinawa, Japan) were a crucial era in the political ecology of the islands, during which the court instituted new bureaucratic offices to manage agricultural land, forests, and craft production. This essay examines the knowledge practices that underpinned the land redistribution and afforestation projects of the eighteenth century: Confucian statecraft and fengshui (lit. “wind” “water”)…
The Craft of Color and the Chemistry of Dyes
This article explores the little-known history of bingata, a textile technology of resist dyeing developed in the Ryukyu Islands (modern-day Okinawa, Japan) during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and later, promoted as traditional folk craft under Japanese colonialism. Located at the center of tributary and trading networks linking Northeast and Southeast Asia and, after 1600, Europe, the Ryukyus were an integral part of the early modern wo…
Empire of Style
Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regul…
Empire of Style
Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style , BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regu…
Needham, Matter, Form, and Us
Joseph Needham offered a vision of history that united his understanding of the physical world with his interpretation of social process, in which the material, social, and ideal realms were reciprocally constituted. This essay explores Needham’s ideas about matter and form to show how he developed a systematic theory of materialism in his early writings on science and social change. Shifting the ground of discourse in Needham’s project from “sci…
Material Girls
Tang dynasty China was a fashionable place. Low-cut necklines, kaftans sewn from sumptuously brocaded silks, diaphanous shawls cut from resist-dyed silk gauze, and striped skirts elaborately patterned with rosettes abound in the visual and material archive. This article takes a closer look at the Tang woman’s wardrobe to show how changes in dress and shifts in the perceptions of dress signified the emergence of a fashion system. It argues that wh…
Empire of Style
Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style , BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regu…
Material Girls
Tang dynasty China was a fashionable place. Low-cut necklines, kaftans sewn from sumptuously brocaded silks, diaphanous shawls cut from resist-dyed silk gauze, and striped skirts elaborately patterned with rosettes abound in the visual and material archive. This article takes a closer look at the Tang woman’s wardrobe to show how changes in dress and shifts in the perceptions of dress signified the emergence of a fashion system. It argues that wh…
Material Girls
Tang dynasty China was a fashionable place. Low-cut necklines, kaftans sewn from sumptuously brocaded silks, diaphanous shawls cut from resist-dyed silk gauze, and striped skirts elaborately patterned with rosettes abound in the visual and material archive. This article takes a closer look at the Tang woman’s wardrobe to show how changes in dress and shifts in the perceptions of dress signified the emergence of a fashion system. It argues that wh…
Empire of Style
Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regul…
Empire of Style
Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style , BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regu…
Needham, Matter, Form, and Us
Joseph Needham offered a vision of history that united his understanding of the physical world with his interpretation of social process, in which the material, social, and ideal realms were reciprocally constituted. This essay explores Needham’s ideas about matter and form to show how he developed a systematic theory of materialism in his early writings on science and social change. Shifting the ground of discourse in Needham’s project from “sci…
The Craft of Color and the Chemistry of Dyes
This article explores the little-known history of bingata, a textile technology of resist dyeing developed in the Ryukyu Islands (modern-day Okinawa, Japan) during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and later, promoted as traditional folk craft under Japanese colonialism. Located at the center of tributary and trading networks linking Northeast and Southeast Asia and, after 1600, Europe, the Ryukyus were an integral part of the early modern wo…
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways…
Vers une histoire globale de la mode
L’étiquette « globale » s’applique désormais à des champs aussi différents que l’éducation, la communication et l’environnement. La mode est d’addition récente, alors que ce que veut dire ou revendiquer la notion de « mode globale » n’a rien d’évident. Cette conversation entre cinq chercheuses et chercheurs qui travaillent à l’intersection de la mode, de l’histoire, des études muséales, des études régionales, de l’anthropologie et de l’ethnograph…
To Embrace and Protect
The last centuries of the Ryukyu Kingdom (?–1879; modern-day Okinawa, Japan) were a crucial era in the political ecology of the islands, during which the court instituted new bureaucratic offices to manage agricultural land, forests, and craft production. This essay examines the knowledge practices that underpinned the land redistribution and afforestation projects of the eighteenth century: Confucian statecraft and fengshui (lit. “wind” “water”)…
Archaeology (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · History (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Empire (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Politics (3 works)