Miaoicization vis-à-vis sinicization: contrasting Miao subgroups in contemporary China

This article studies the Miao classification as an example to examine the minzu shibie project initiated by the Chinese Communist Party after 1949. The Miao classification that originates with the minzu shibie project can be defined as a process of miaoicization; however, it is not a unified Miao group (as projected by the classification team) that has emerged but rather one dominant Miao subgroup that defines the official Miao category in contemporary China. At the moment the most dominant Miao subgroup is the Hmu group in Southeast Guizhou. The overemphasis of Hmu sub-culture to represent all the Miao of China is related to the fact that over the last decades many important leaders in Guizhou have been Hmu. While all Hmu are sinicized to a certain extent, it seems that the Hmu at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale are most likely to be sinicized and to amalgamate with the Han majority.     

Predatory purchasing practices in global apparel supply chains and the employment relations squeeze in the Indian garment export industry

While the literature has long acknowledged worker rights abuses in global apparel supply chains, less attention has been paid to the recent worsening of certain decent work deficits and its causes, which this article links to predatory purchasing practices arising from growing power asymmetries. These practices, illustrated here by the garment export industry in India, exert downward pressure on wages and incite non‐standard forms of employment and greater verbal and physical abuse as productivity demands rise. They can be addressed through pricing mechanisms that cover the cost of decent work, appropriate State regulation and worker involvement.     

论服装销售中的品牌文化

本文围绕品牌文化分析了其蕴涵的深刻价值内涵和情感内涵,阐述了品牌文化在服装销售过程中的作用。     

Collecting loss

ABSTRACT

‘Collecting Loss’ develops themes from Pleasures Taken (Mavor, Duke University Press, 1995) with an emphasis on the fetishization of photographs and old clothes (exemplified, on the one hand, in Elin O'Hara Slavick's own girlhood dresses that she has stitched with haunting memories of her childhood, and on the other hand in the lush photographs taken by Sally Mann and the Victorian photographer Clementina Hawarden). As Christian Boltanski has written: ‘What they [clothing and photographs] have in common is that they are simultaneously presence and absence. They are both an object and a souvenir of a subject, exactly as a cadaver is both an object and a souvenir of a subject.’ Reading an old photographic album made by her own grandmother against other maternal collections of plenitude (whether they be old clothes or photographs or domestic bric-a-brac), Mavor reveals how such accumulated goods are made to fill in for the pangs of loss: lost childhoods, lost family histories, lost memories, lost friends. Mixing corporeality and critical theory, Mavor engages with Emily Apter's notion of ‘maternal collectomania’ as a site of provocative meanings worthy of placement alongside more conventional discourses on visual representation and collecting.     

Jewish and Muslim Married Women Don't Work

ABSTRACT

This article sets out to locate the place and meaning of work within the lives of migrant wives by examining the experiences of two migrant waves into Britain: Eastern European Jews from Russia, Russia/Poland, and Romania at the end of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries; and Muslim Bangladeshis during the latter decades of the twentieth and dawn of the twenty-first centuries. Using a cultural and religious framework, it explores the reality of life for women whose traditional role has been perceived solely as that of homemaker. However, research has shown that in the case of both groups, economic activities were carried out within and beyond the home. Going behind the “veil,” it reveals the various means employed by women who sought to sustain the household at times of hardship, even if this involved contravening the wishes of spouses and in-laws. Finally, the article highlights the recent changes that have taken place in the economic lives of Bangladeshi and Pakistani women who are seeking to empower themselves by moving into the economic mainstream.     

虚拟经营与服装企业的竞争力

本文指出服装业根据虚拟经营的特点，若是成功运行虚拟经营方式可能带来企业的绩效。     

从流行趋势谈服装专业课程教学

服装流行是一种社会现象,是物质、精神文明高度发展的产物。符合流行趋势的服装不仅价格倍增,而且被人们视为时尚的象征。本文通过回顾我国服装教育的历史,分析服装行业的现状和典型特征等,着重阐述我国高校服装教育教学模式的完善和补充。建立服装流行趋势的观念是推动服装业发展的关键,也是职业院校提高教学质量,深化教学改革的重要课题。     

高校服装工程专业课程考核方法的创新思考

围绕现行课程考核方法的价值和存在的主要问题等方面的分析,总结指出高校服装工程专业加快课程考核改革创新体制的建设,不仅是构建高校服装工程专业实践性、创新型人才的实施途径和保障,全面提升服装工程专业学生创新素质的根本需要,而且对于推动高校服装工程专业发展都有着深远的现实意义。     

基于快速反应机制的纺织服装供应链策略研究

我国纺织服装业普遍存在库存高和客户满足率低的矛盾，解决矛盾的有效方法是建立供应链快速反应机制。通过分析纺织服装供应链的特点，提出基于快速反应机制的纺织服装供应链策略。     

中国文学服装叙述的政治文化形态

着装是将身体社会化并赋予其意义与身份的一种手段,个体的着装隶属于社会身体管理学的范畴.服装是一种社会文化符号,其的变化与社会政治文化的变迁联系在一起.朝代的更迭、政体的改变、思想的变迁,往往最直接地表现在服装之上.借助在现代性意识形态话语,20世纪80年代中国文学的服装叙述担负了极其重要的政治文化语义功能.