Cold War Sewing Machines
Production and Consumption in 1950s China and Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3626132 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antonia Finnane (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 755-783 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911816000607 |
| OpenAlex | W2531862160 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 37 |
With the "consumption turn" in the humanities and the social sciences, a phenomenon evident in English-language scholarship from the 1980s onward, production ceased to command the attention it had once received from historians. A recent (2012) study of the sewing machine in modern Japan by Harvard historian Andrew Gordon demonstrates the effects: what could feasibly have been published under the title "Making Machinists" was instead marketed as "Fabricating Consumers." What does it mean to talk about consumers in 1950s Japan, a time and place of hard work, thrift, and restraint? For Gordon an important premise was the role of women in the postwar economy. This provides a point of departure from which to explore the ideologies and practices of production and consumption across the Cold War dividing line between "consumerist" and "productionist" regimes in East Asia. The Cold War was a time of sharp differences between the two societies, but also a time of shared preoccupations with productivity and national growth. In their different political contexts, Japanese and Chinese women were acting out many of the same roles
China · Cold war · Consumption (sociology) · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Ideology · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Premise · Production (economics) · Productivity · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
Urban life in contemporary China
Norms and the State in China
Everyday Technology
Assembled in Japan
From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932
Anyuan
The Gender of MemoryRural Women and China's Collective Past
Making and Faking Kinship
The Cold War in Asia
Cold War Cultures
The Politics of Women's Work
Patriarchy in East Asia
Chinese Creeds And Customs
Petrified Utopia
The Growth Idea
Industrial Development in Postwar Japan
City Life in Japan
Questioning Minds
Molding Japanese Minds
Fabricating Consumers
The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
China and Japan in the Global Setting
Warlords, Bullies, and State Building in Nationalist China
The Social History of the Sewing Machine in the Middle East
Compromising with Consumerism in Socialist China
Women and sexuality in China
Bodies of Memory
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |