Rachel Silberstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 5884170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Silberstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Silberstein |
| SIGNATURE | SILBERSTEIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8346-3147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The 72 Kinds”: The Cloth Classic, the Jiangnan Cotton Finishing Sector, and the Expansion of Cotton Dyeing in the Qing Dynasty
Though the topic of commercialization in the Qing dynasty cotton industry has been subject of much scholarship, little attention has been given to the improvements of finishing and dyeing in Jiangnan cottons over the course of this period. Using The Cloth Classic , a late eighteenth-/ early nineteenth-century cloth merchants’ compendium, this paper investigates the material basis and technical processes producing the “72 kinds” of cloth with part…
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
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…
Cloud Collars and Sleeve Bands: Commercial Embroidery and the Fashionable Accessory in Mid-to-Late Qing China
This paper explores how the growth of commercialized textile production entwined with fashionable consumption to stimulate new styles in Chinese women’s dress during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on the development of Suzhou’s embroidery industry, the paper demonstrates the shift towards the embroidered accessory during this period and discusses how production systems delineated the possibilities of fashionable dress. Combinin…
Eight Scenes of Suzhou: Landscape Embroidery, Urban Courtesans, and Nineteenth-Century Chinese Women’s Fashions
This article examines a late Qing woman’s jacket embroidered with eight well-known Suzhou garden and temple sites. Such an object makes little sense within the conventional historiography of Chinese dress, long dominated by regulated garments like dragon robes and rank badges, and consequently, concerned with themes of imperial status and official rank. I argue that the jacket is best understood, instead, at the juncture of three wider historical…
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Eight Scenes of Suzhou: Landscape Embroidery, Urban Courtesans, and Nineteenth-Century Chinese Women’s Fashions
This article examines a late Qing woman’s jacket embroidered with eight well-known Suzhou garden and temple sites. Such an object makes little sense within the conventional historiography of Chinese dress, long dominated by regulated garments like dragon robes and rank badges, and consequently, concerned with themes of imperial status and official rank. I argue that the jacket is best understood, instead, at the juncture of three wider historical…
Cloud Collars and Sleeve Bands: Commercial Embroidery and the Fashionable Accessory in Mid-to-Late Qing China
This paper explores how the growth of commercialized textile production entwined with fashionable consumption to stimulate new styles in Chinese women’s dress during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on the development of Suzhou’s embroidery industry, the paper demonstrates the shift towards the embroidered accessory during this period and discusses how production systems delineated the possibilities of fashionable dress. Combinin…
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
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…
The 72 Kinds”: The Cloth Classic, the Jiangnan Cotton Finishing Sector, and the Expansion of Cotton Dyeing in the Qing Dynasty
Though the topic of commercialization in the Qing dynasty cotton industry has been subject of much scholarship, little attention has been given to the improvements of finishing and dyeing in Jiangnan cottons over the course of this period. Using The Cloth Classic , a late eighteenth-/ early nineteenth-century cloth merchants’ compendium, this paper investigates the material basis and technical processes producing the “72 kinds” of cloth with part…
Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · China (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Clothing (2 works)